“It’s the first day game here this season. They tell me it’s 33 degrees but it feels like 43. You can see the sweat all over me already. Standing on pitch number 6. So just about the dimensions, away to my left, the bigger of the two square boundaries – 67 meters, 61 to my right, and 75 down the ground. This pitch, over the years, this pitch in Mumbai has always been good for batting. But this one looks. There’s a little bit of grass here and there. But this will be a pitch where there will be a lot of runs,” reckon Ian Bishop and Sunil Gavaskar.
