Sub Continental Pitches

As India recently toured Sri Lanka where three test matches were played, I have realised that sub-continental pitches tend to be batsmen friendly and no matter what day, it is bound to turn for the spinners. For fast bowlers to be successful on the pitches, they would have to be in top form taking the wickets early or rely on batsmen to make silly errors. I think it is very important for teams to go into these matches with more than two pace bowlers so there can be a change in the bowling attack at the start. This is a decision that can be controversial as there isn't much help to the pace bowlers in the sub-continental pitches but it could be very helpful in situations such as:

One of the other bowlers can't seem to find line and length
There are overcast conditions
Much easier way to regulate the pace attack from different ends

Even thought the points I have stated don't seem like much to bring in a third seamer but it could change the momentum of the game. In the three test matches played there were 80 wickets taken in total, 27 wickets were taken by fast bowlers. More often then not the wickets were of crucial batsmen and the maximum amount of overs bowled by a seamer was only 28 over. I know that 28 overs is a lot, nearly a session but when you compare it to maximum amount of over bowled by a spinner was 78 overs. The question for most teams is that where does the third seamer come from, well I think the teams must go with two spinners so a batsmen has to make way. 6 batsmen (including a wicketkeeper) are more than enough on sub-continental pitches and there are statistics to prove that. In the three tests the total amount of runs scored were 4094 and 51 runs were scored for every wicket taken so this means that for a team to get bowled out they will score a grand total of 510 runs therefore it is not a problem to go into a test with 6 batsmen. This is where an all rounder comes into play as he could get valuable runs and take valuable wickets. If you look at most sides this is what they have such as:

Australia: Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson
Sri Lanka: Angelo Mathews, KGT Prasad
England: Stuart Broad
South Africa: Morkel Brothers

This is why it is more than important for teams to go into matches with a third pace bowler and it will have to be a risk taken by teams to stay on top, especially India who don't have a genuine all rounder.