Mohammad Kaif said about the final pitch in an interview given to Lalantop, “I was there for three days, before the final match, we did a lot of live shows from there, Rohit Sharma came in the evening… Dravid both came to the pitch in the evening.” Went around, what kind of pitch is it, stood there for half an hour… stood there for an hour… yes brother, it’s been a day… gave a second, came back again, roaming around, doing up-down, up-down. , are talking there for an hour, how is it…this has happened for three consecutive days and I have seen the color of the pitch changing, meaning I have come wearing this blue, it will look yellow after three days…like this I saw the color changing. There is no water running, no grass… His message was to slow down the pitch brother… This is the true thing… Even if people don’t believe it… I said this as a commentator. I was present there and said, Cummins is there, Starc is there, he has fast bowling, don’t give him slow pitch… there was a mistake… 100 percent… no matter how much people say that the curator does his job. ..we don’t say anything there…it’s nonsense…”
Mohammad Kaif further said, “When you are walking there, you talk 100 percent… that brother, reduce the grass a little… pour less water… you have to speak only two lines… this. It happens…it’s true…and you are playing a match at home…then why not take advantage…but I felt that they were more interested in the advantage…if they got a slow pitch…if they got a slow pitch… Cummins had a learning…Cummins first match if you remember was in Chennai…India vs Australia…Cummins had won the toss there also and Cummins had said…this is a slow pitch here batting first Will do…later dew came and India won that match comfortably…chased…first batting was difficult on dry pitch and slow pitch…so Cummins brought that learning…”
Mohammad Kaif praised the captaincy of Pat Cummins and said, “Even if it was a big match, it was the final… but people do not field in the final after winning the toss… this is a record… we did it once in 2003. ..and we had lost there too…when Ganguly was the captain…but Cummins learned that man…it’s a slow pitch, it doesn’t matter…we will chase here…it’s a big match, the difference is It doesn’t matter because the dew factor is that if the ball is wet then batting is easy…so in that respect he fielded…we got trapped…by batting first on a slow pitch…it would have been a normal pitch…Mohammed Shami who is in form. I am there…you name it…Bumrah, Jadeja, Kuldeep Bhai, stormy bowling…100 percent India playing on a normal flat pitch would have won the match…runs would have been scored…we would have defended as well… There was a little bit of doctoring in the wicket and we got stuck in the matter of doctoring…”