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I think this always gets overstated when it comes to such pitches. Time and time again it's the batsmen who are good against spin, and importantly the ones with sound defensive techniques that actually get scores. It defies the nonsensical "Just hit out before you get a ball with your name on it" mentality that people think has a better chance of success on rank turners. Khawaja and Pujara getting the only two fifties was not a coincidence at all and they played pretty sedate innings with basically no slogging. I think it does a serious disservice to guys that do well on such surfaces to say luck was the "main" factor. I don't think there were enough of those completely unplayable balls from what I saw to classify this as one of those where all you do is pray.Obviously there was still skill differentiation in this game but it did feel like there were times where luck was the main factor in whether batsmen made a decent score or not.
By the guidelines the icc have set though , rating it poor is understandable. Definitely way too bowler friendly to be considered a good potch.