Too flat for a result !!
2 Days into the Test match -- 622 runs scored and only 10 wickets taken.
Bowlers had to toil all the day(s) long in the hot,muggy and sultry Chennai weather to get those wickets.There was absolutely nothing in the pitch for the bowlers.Nearly all the top order South African batsmen came to the party and now its the turn of their Indian counterparts to make merry of the bowlers.Its pathetic to look at the fast bowlers toil on such lifeless wickets and you can't help but sympathize with those poor souls running in hard and bending their backs to see those efforts go in vain.
Naturally the question that would come to everyone's mind would be.. why cant we have more sporting wickets.What's the point in playing on pitches that wouldn't provide any result? Not only would it decrease the already waining interest in test cricket, it also would drain the bowlers mentally and psychologically.
Everyone would like to see an even contest between the bat and the ball.You don't want teams to score some 500 odd runs or bowlers getting the other team cheaply.Its the tests where teams score about 300 that are normally very interesting.Ashes 2005 is a good example.But sadly it doesn't seem to be the case in India.Almost all of them are flat tracks which would assist spinners from the 4th day.Pitches for the Pak series were horrible and the Chennai pitch isn't much different.
Its interesting to note that almost all of recent Indian test victories have come on sporting/seaming wickets.Victories in Perth, Johannesburg etc were all on seaming tracks.Its understandable that the pitches were flat before,because the Indian pace department wasn't that equipped,but now we have some really good fast bowlers who are no less than their say Aussie or South African counterparts.Even then we don't get to see any seaming/sporting pitches.Since its the home team which calls the shots regarding the pitch,the only logical reason would be that the batsmen aren't comfortable playing on the seaming tracks.
I hope that they at least prepare some sporting pitches in the coming matches and we get to see some good test matches.
Bowlers had to toil all the day(s) long in the hot,muggy and sultry Chennai weather to get those wickets.There was absolutely nothing in the pitch for the bowlers.Nearly all the top order South African batsmen came to the party and now its the turn of their Indian counterparts to make merry of the bowlers.Its pathetic to look at the fast bowlers toil on such lifeless wickets and you can't help but sympathize with those poor souls running in hard and bending their backs to see those efforts go in vain.
Naturally the question that would come to everyone's mind would be.. why cant we have more sporting wickets.What's the point in playing on pitches that wouldn't provide any result? Not only would it decrease the already waining interest in test cricket, it also would drain the bowlers mentally and psychologically.
Everyone would like to see an even contest between the bat and the ball.You don't want teams to score some 500 odd runs or bowlers getting the other team cheaply.Its the tests where teams score about 300 that are normally very interesting.Ashes 2005 is a good example.But sadly it doesn't seem to be the case in India.Almost all of them are flat tracks which would assist spinners from the 4th day.Pitches for the Pak series were horrible and the Chennai pitch isn't much different.
Its interesting to note that almost all of recent Indian test victories have come on sporting/seaming wickets.Victories in Perth, Johannesburg etc were all on seaming tracks.Its understandable that the pitches were flat before,because the Indian pace department wasn't that equipped,but now we have some really good fast bowlers who are no less than their say Aussie or South African counterparts.Even then we don't get to see any seaming/sporting pitches.Since its the home team which calls the shots regarding the pitch,the only logical reason would be that the batsmen aren't comfortable playing on the seaming tracks.
I hope that they at least prepare some sporting pitches in the coming matches and we get to see some good test matches.
posted by kiran @ 7:27 AM
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There has been a demand for sporting pitches since we were children da :P
Incompetent politicians BCCI chairman avute ilage edustundi. Btw Laloo is speculated to be the next chief. Hail BCCI
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