‘Test skill breakdown’: After Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s struggle against spin, Kevin Pietersen’s brutal verdict

After Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma struggled against spin, Kevin Pietersen delivered a brutal verdict.

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Former England captain Kevin Pietersen launched a scathing attack on the current generation of Test cricketers, criticizing their lack of intent and technical prowess. Rejecting the growing focus on aggressive cricket, Pietersen called the modern game “disgusting” cricket.

In a recent post on social media, the former England captain expressed disappointment over the decline in Test batting skills, which is especially noticeable in the performances of stalwart Indian players. Virat Kohli And Rohit Sharma. He stressed the importance of patience and technical skill, especially in spin bowling, which seems to be lacking in modern cricket.

Pietersen’s comments are a stark reminder of the changing dynamics of Test cricket. While aggressive, attacking cricket has its place, the traditional virtues of patience, technique and temperament remain crucial to success in the longest format of the game.

“No one should be surprised by the lack of application and technique of batting in Test match cricket. Cricket has now become a game of ‘batter’ and the game is witnessing a disintegration of Test match batting skills.

When it comes to playing spin, the only way is to spend time playing against it for hours and hours and hours. There is no quick cure!” – he wrote on X.

Pietersen is not the only critic of modern cricket and its style influencing Test cricket. Recently, former India legend Sunil Gavaskar also spoke on the matter and said, “I think this is the situation since the advent of the white ball game. push the ball to take it away. Now on pitches where the ball is doing something, be it a sharp turn, I think you need to play with at least one soft hand, if not two soft hands.

“And so you know that the bat speed, which can then be controlled, where the edges that now go to the sliding fielders, is going to be a little lower if you’re playing with soft hands. So the speed of the bat was the reason because India now plays a lot more white-ball games than Test matches,” Gavaskar told the India Today.