Team India Test captain Shubman Gill lashed out at the Oval’s pitch curator Lee Fortis regarding his ugly spat with coach Gautam Gambhir. Saying that he didn’t understand what the fuss was all about, Gill shared that he can’t recall any other curator having a problem with the Indian team in the Test series as well.

However, his comments came after a huge controversy took place on Tuesday, July 29, after the Oval curator Fortis asked India’s coaches to stay 2.5m away from the pitch, and Gambhir was involved in a verbal altercation with Fortis as well.

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At a press conference on the eve of the Oval Test, Gill commented: “As long as I remember, no such instructions are given. As long as you are wearing rubber spikes or are barefoot, you can watch the wicket by going close. I don’t know what happened yesterday and why the curator said no to it. We have played four matches before that and no one had stopped us. I don’t know what the fuss was all about. If a pitch curator to going to come and ask us to not look at the pitch and look at the wicket from 3m from behind, that’s not something that has happened to us before. We have been playing cricket for a long time.”

The Oval Test between England and India will begin just three days after the end of the fourth Test in Manchester. However, there was a much bigger gap between the first and second Tests and the third and fourth Tests as well.

“One of the most important things in the series has been that the matches have gone on till five days – not just five days, the last session of Day 5. I can’t remember a series where all the four matches went on till the last day. It’s definitely hard,” Gill said. “Three days is too less of a turnaround when both the teams are playing such hard cricket. But, we also understand, if you keep giving five or six days after every match, the tour becomes very long. The decision has been taken by the board and we trust it,” Shubman Gill concluded.