Boxing Day Test: After two players, including captain Rohit Sharma, were struck while batting in the nets ahead of Thursday’s Boxing Day Test, India may have felt aggrieved that they were given worn pitches to practice on. However, the Melbourne Cricket Ground’s chief curator Matt Page defended the practice pitches, insisting he had followed the years-old protocol. In the lead-up to the Boxing Day Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Rohit was struck on the knee and had to pause his practice session for treatment. Later, Akash Deep was also hit, with the bowler citing variable bounce as the reason. Akash Deep suggested India were practising on the wickets used by Big Bash sides. “We keep getting hit in the nets. That is fine. I think this wicket was for white ball, which is why the ball kept low at times. But these blows are common in training,” Akash Deep said. However, Page said that was not the case. “For us, three days out, we prepare Test match pitches for here. If teams come and train …