“The series also emphasised the benefits of playing first-class cricket at major venues ... "I hate saying this out loud: That's the worst pitch I've ever seen in Sydney." ...

Tim Paine slammed the Sydney wicket after the fifth Test ended in a two-and-a-half days with neither India nor Australia reaching the 200-run mark.

Former Australian captain Michael Clarke declared it “the worst pitch I’ve ever seen in Sydney ... That morning Fox Cricket’s Kerry O’Keeffe shared that he had spoken with the curators ...

but that's the worst pitch I've ever seen in Sydney," he told ESPN's Around The Wicket. "I didn't think it was a good cricket wicket, balls not just going up off the surface but shooting low at ...