Axar Patel took 11 wickets in the pink-ball Test against England, as India secured a 10-wicket win to lead the four-match series 2-1.
Former England cricketer Geoffrey Boycott said that there are no rules on "what type of pitches should be prepared."
The senior opener scored India's only half-century of the game with the home side spinners accounting for 19 wickets.
Root refused to blame the surface for England's batting woes after the team folded for 112 and 81 in its two innings.
Kohli insisted there were no demons in the pitch, which has been called "not ideal" by several former players like Michael Vaughan and Harbhajan Singh.
Gavaskar said the overtly defensive mindset of the batsmen was responsible for their dismissals as most of them got out to straighter deliveries.
Ashwin reached the landmark in the day-night third Test against England here when he dismissed Jofra Archer in England's second innings.
Kohli revealed that Axar's heroics left Ishant Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah hilariously complaining about the lack of bowling opportunities in the third Test.
Axar was also adjudged Man of the Match for his brilliant display at the Motera strip.
India wrapped up the game with an emphatic 10-wicket win in Ahmedabad to take a 2-1 lead in the series and inch closer to the World Test Championship final.
Ashwin became the second-fastest bowler in the history of the game (after Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan) to reach the feat.
The last time India won inside two days in a Test was in 2018, beating Afghanistan in Bengaluru.
India, on the other hand, have inched one closer to the World Test Championship final where New Zealand awaits their opponent.
Patel picked five wickets in the second essay, adding to his outstanding haul of six in the first innings as England collapsed at dinner break to record one of their worst batting shows.
Earlier in the first innings, Axar, sticking with a stump-to-stump line, had taken six wickets to blow away England for 112 runs.
India's Ravichandran Ashwin became the second-fastest bowler in the history of the game to reach 400 wickets in Test cricket.
No other batsman has been dismissed more times by Ashwin than Stokes, surpassing Australia's David Warner with 10 dismissals and Alastair Cook with nine.
Root claimed an astounding and innings-changing five-wicket haul, conceding just eight runs in 38 deliveries, the first ever in his 162-match First Class career.
On the very first delivery of the 51st over, Ishant hit it over mid-off for a maximum.
Hosts India started the second Day on 99/3, with Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane in the middle.
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