Pacers of India and South Africa dismantled the batters with pace and bounce in the Cape Town Test. Pacers took all 33 wickets of the match, spinners did not even bowl 1 ball.

The opposite happens on the Test match pitch in Indian conditions. Spinners twirl the baton throughout the match, taking top wickets and winning the team. But seeing the turning wicket, many turned their eyes to the performance of India. In addition, the ICC has assessed many pitches in India as lower than average and bad, and has also given demerit points. After the Cape Town Test, India captain Rohit Sharma urges the ICC and match referees to be impartial in evaluating the pitch.

Rohit said, “When you are put up against, a challenge like that, you come and face it. That's what happens in India, but, in India on day one, if the pitch starts turning, people start talking about 'Puff of dust! Puff of dust!' There's so much crack here on the pitch. People are not looking at that.”

According to Rohit, "I think it's important that we stay neutral everywhere we go. Especially the match referees.

The ICC has rated the pitches in several matches of the World Cup as below average. Referring to that, Rohit added, "I still can't believe that the World Cup final pitch was rated below average. A batsman got a hundred there in the final. How can that be a poor pitch? So these are the things the ICC, the match referees, they need to look into and start rating pitches based on what they see, not based on the countries. I think that's quite important.

"So I hope they keep their ears open, they keep their eyes open and look into those aspects of the game. Honestly, I'm all for pitches like this. We want to challenge playing on pitches like this. We pride ourselves playing on pitches like this. Uh, but all I want to say is be neutral."

Rohit further said, "Honestly, I would like to see how the pitches are rated. I want to see that. Whatever... that chart, I would love to see it, how they rate the pitches, because Mumbai, Bangalore, Cape Town, Centurion, all different venues, overhead conditions are different. The pitches deteriorate quite fast when the sun is beating down that hard on the pitch.

"And in India as well, we know that the conditions in India will spin without a doubt, but obviously people don't like it because it spins from day one. But that's not the point. If the ball seams from ball one, that's okay, right, for everyone? That's not fair. The ball starts spinning from ball one, it should be okay, in my opinion.

"Otherwise, you stay neutral, and you start rating these kind of pitches also bad, because if you want the ball only to seam and not turn, in my opinion, that is absolutely wrong. So that's my judgement, that's my opinion on it. I'll stick by it because I've seen enough of cricket now and I've seen enough of how these match referees and the ICC looks into these ratings. I have no issues in how they want to rate, but stay neutral to everything that you do."

India won the last match of the series by 7 wickets to draw the two-match Test series 1-1.