It will spin from day one: Steve Smith on Pune track

Australia captain Steven Smith has dropped a bombshell indicating that the Pune track, the venue of the first Test against India, will be a rank turner where the ball will spin from day one as he has not seen a wicket like this before.

“I think it will take spin from ball one. There are a couple of divots out of the wicket as well,” Smith was quoted by the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.

By “divot”, Smith termed the track as a piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke or by a sports player’s boot. It’s another way of terming the pitch under-prepared.