Guwahati pitch resembles a road, Kolkata pitch was different, says Kuldeep

New Delhi: The Guwahati pitch for second Test is far more friendly for batters than the one for the first match in Kolkata, Kuldeep Yavas has observed after India's struggle to bowl out South Africa in the first innings.

The visitors scored 489 on the second day after resuming at 247 for six, with Senuran Muthusamy scoring his maiden Test ton and Marco Jansen falling seven short of his first one.

With figures of 4 for 115 in 29.1 overs, Yadav was the most successful bowler as the Indian attack struggled to make breakthroughs.

"Kolkata ka wicket toh alag thaa. Yeh to pura road tha (Kolkata's wicket was different and this was a whole road). So it's challenging and that's why it's called a Test wicket," he said.

The left armer though pointed out that speaking too much about the wicket serves little purpose and players need to fight to counter adverse conditions.

"It is not always about domination but it is also very important how you come back on a good batting surface. It was a difficult wicket for the bowlers because I didn't feel that there was a lot of help in this wicket," the leg-spinner said.

"Even for fast bowlers it didn't seem like a lot of help, but yeah, this is Test cricket and you should enjoy it. You should enjoy, learn more and the more you mature, you shouldn't think too much about the wicket. You should go there and play. Next Test, there could be a better wicket, so no complaints."

Yadav said that apart from some underlying moisture in the opening session, there wasn't much help for spinners in five sessions of play.

"Personally I felt yesterday first session, there was a bit of moisture in the wicket, so I got a little bit of turn there in the first session. After that it was very good to bat on," he said.

"There wasn't any turn yesterday as well as today. Today was much better to bat on because I hardly got any turn. Even me and Jadeja we have been talking about that."