Yes! In India it's not a wise to choose field in day matches. You can choose in D/N matches but not in Day matches.
Yes he can do as he has home team support, good batting line up and in form players who just comming with series win on Aussi.
Well there was Test match in Maholi so BCCI give other venues to host matches. You know in India we have too many venues.
Even we can arrange more then 50 matches at a time as we have 2-3 International Grounds is most of Indian states.
I agree with you as now a days our pitches too bad for bowlers. Even outfield is also slow. Did you seen Rajkot match? Very fast outfield.
Well I have no idea and have no information about pitch and ground as it's many years after we are watching match in Indore.
All of a sudden, the pitch seems better to bat on. It looks a little ragged for sure, however, the batsmen seem to play better after settling down on it.