India are unlikely to stop asking the curators from preparing pitches that turn from Day I itself despite the loss to Australia in Indore.

The team management believes turning pitches give them their best chance to win Test matches at home.

“Honestly speaking, these are the kind of pitches we want to play on,” India captain Rohit Sharma said after the loss. “This is our strength, so when you’re playing at your home, you always play to your strength, not worry about what people outside are talking about.

“We want to play to our strength, and that strength is spin bowling and that batting depth. And everyone uses that advantage outside (India), so what’s wrong in that? We’ve got to do that as well, especially when we’re getting results. If we were not getting the results, I would think otherwise, but I think we are playing well, we are getting the results that we want.”

India know they can’t expect their batters to score runs consistently on these pitches.

“People will have the phase where the runs are not coming, but that doesn’t really matter, honestly,” Rohit said. “We do understand the nature of the pitch, the challenge of playing on these pitches, so consistent runs from the batters will not come, but we’re very much okay with that, as long as, as a whole, we are getting the job done. That is what I’m looking at.

“We’re here to win... whether it’s two days or five days, it doesn’t really matter. We don’t want to prepare a pitch where the results are not coming. We are here to win, and we want to play to win, every game that we play. When I say that, I do understand that it can come and haunt us as well, I’m very much aware of that, but so be it.

“We want to be brave enough not just with talking, we want to be brave enough in what we do out on the field, which starts with playing on challenging pitches.”

Rohit felt their batters weren’t “brave enough” and that led to the debacle.