The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) pitch, used for the recent fifth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT), has managed to received a ‘satisfactory’ rating from the International Cricket Council (ICC) despite rolling out one of the spiciest wickets of this century.

India legend Sunil Gavaskar, now a provocative commentator, claimed if wickets fell at that rate in India, “there would be hell” with complaints about the state of the pitch. But the ICC ticked off the SCG pitch, giving it the second-highest rating.

The remaining pitches at the four other venues of the just-concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy have been rated 'very good'

Roach pointed out that the SCG pitch aimed to showcase early pace and bounce, which would naturally wear and spin as the game progressed

Sydney: Four out of five pitches used in the recent Border-Gavaskar Test series between India and Australia have been rated 'very good' by the ICC, which found the track for the fifth and final game in Sydney to be 'satisfactory,