The Rawalpindi pitch has been put under the spotlight with officials to judge whether the surface should be deemed "poor".The International Cricket Council's chief referee Ranjan Madugalle will make the final decision after the pitch produced just 11 wickets in the opening four days of the first Test.If the condition of the pitch is labelled so, the ground will receive a sanction of three demerit points. Worryingly, a venue that is handed five points over five years will be suspended from hosting international cricket for 12 months.With the content set to finish as one of the least bowler-friendly Test matches this century, Steve Smith said the track did no favours for the fast bowlers and only marginal assisted the spinners."It's pretty benign," Smith told reporters."There's not a great deal of pace and bounce in it for the seamers, that's for sure."I think the spinners have offered a little bit. When you've hit the right length there's been a bit of natural variation, and when you get it out a bit wider into the rough there's a bit there as well."But outside of that, I don't think there's a great deal on offer for the fast bowlers … It's a pretty benign, dead wicket."There's not very much bounce, not a great deal of pace and if you're bowling stump to stump and setting straight fields it's not overly easy to score ... but also probably difficult to get out as well."A pitch is deemed "poor" if it "displays little or no seam movement or turn at any stage in the match together with no significant bounce or carry, thereby depriving the bowlers of a fair contest between bat and ball".The match looks likely to finish in a draw with Australia going to stumps on Monday on 7-449 in reply to Pakistan's 4-476 declared.
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