Australia's demolition of India in the first Test in Pune has prompted a pair of former India greats to call for less spin-friendly pitches for the remainder of the series.
Former India captains Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly want curators to produce flat wickets that produce scores in excess of 400 runs, rather than the Pune pitch that was described by Shane Warne as "a day eight wicket" on day one of the Test match.
Ganguly said India will be "scared" to see another turning pitch after the Australian spinners ripped through the India batting line-up.
"The difference between the earlier teams and this Australian team touring here was the accuracy by Steve O'Keefe and Nathan Lyon. If Australia's spinners keep bowling so accurately, India will be scared of preparing turning pitches," Ganguly told the India Today TV network.
"India must have been surprised with the way Australia's spinners bowled. It's not the first time India prepared turners. They believed their own spinners were more accurate than the Aussie spinners. The way the two Australian spinners bowled will make India think for the rest of the series."
One of the controversy's around India's wickets has been the tendency to create flat tracks where the result is dependent on who wins the coin toss.
Batting first has long been too much of an advantage in India Test matches and Ganguly believes in this case it played too big a part in the result.
"If India would have won the toss in this Test match the game could have been different. Don't leave it to winning tosses in Test cricket. Play on good pitches in Bangalore, Ranchi and Dharamsala," Ganguly said.
"Invariably these pitches would turn on days four and five, take the game till the end. Because when you prepare such pitches and the ball is turning square as a batsman you know your chances of scoring are very difficult. India's best chance would be to play on good pitches."
Gavaskar called the loss one of India's "worst defeats in Test cricket" and said India would be better suited to high-scoring wickets, such as what they played on in the series against England.
"I can't really remember India losing in two and half days. It was a bit surprising the way India tackled the Australian spinners. It was probably a bad day. I am disappointed with a lack of fight shown by the Indian team. Getting out in 75 overs in two innings is just not done. This was one of the worst defeats of the Indian team," Gavaskar told NDTV.
