World Test Championship
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Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.
Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.
But we know they won't.
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@majorrage said in World Test Championship:
Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.
Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.
But we know they won't.
Gradually lost almost all interest in Cricket about 3-5 years ago but for some reason found myself watching the Indian 2nd Innings - all 34 minutes of it.
Highlighted why I can't be arsed to watch the game any more.
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@majorrage said in World Test Championship:
Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.
Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.
But we know they won't.
I’m not here to defend the BCCI but many of the England dismissals in both innings, guys were beaten by misreading the flight of the ball. Nothing remarkable or controversial there. Patel had the ball spinning like crazy before it even touched the pitch.
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@majorrage said in World Test Championship:
Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.
Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.
But we know they won't.
It raises an interesting question about what a bad pitch looks like. To me, that looked like a pitch that was the same for both sides. A genuine turner - but both sides had to navigate it. Made runs absolutely gold, and far far better viewing than watching some of the roads that have been put together. Remember the glued pitch in Auckland in 1999 (link below)?
What people aren't talking about is the pink ball here. Pink ball tests must be throwing out more results and low runs per wicket than any others ... maybe it's a gimmick and we should go back to Red balls in the daytime?
link to glued pitch
Officials slam dull pitch (4 March 1999)
New Zealand and Auckland cricket officials have slammed the slow and lifeless Eden Park wicket that killed the first test between New Zealand and South Africa as spectacle
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@act-crusader said in World Test Championship:
@majorrage said in World Test Championship:
Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.
Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.
But we know they won't.
I’m not here to defend the BCCI but many of the England dismissals in both innings, guys were beaten by misreading the flight of the ball. Nothing remarkable or controversial there. Patel had the ball spinning like crazy before it even touched the pitch.
But add in India bowled out for 140 odd?
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@majorrage India are without doubt the better team and beforehand I would have just hoped for some degree of competitiveness. maybe England spanking India in the first test has had a knock on effect? Dunno but if this game had been played in the County Championship, the pitch would have been reported to the E&WCB.
I think if you have the will power to trawl through this thread, it was even suggested after India had levelled the series that this was a likelihood.
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@catogrande said in World Test Championship:
@act-crusader said in World Test Championship:
@majorrage said in World Test Championship:
Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.
Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.
But we know they won't.
I’m not here to defend the BCCI but many of the England dismissals in both innings, guys were beaten by misreading the flight of the ball. Nothing remarkable or controversial there. Patel had the ball spinning like crazy before it even touched the pitch.
But add in India bowled out for 140 odd?
They completely misread Root too. They were cruising (relative to the game) at 99-3. And as we know getting one usually means two. And then the Indian middle order got nervy as.
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@kiwimurph said in World Test Championship:
All this talk about the pitch.
Didn't the Adelaide pink ball test Aus v India last about the same time?
When I was a kid I recall the Aussies preparing WACA pitches that had teams being rolled for under 100 or thereabouts.
And the Windies loved those conditions too...
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@majorrage said in World Test Championship:
Pitch was designed for an Indian victory in less than 3 days.
only because they play spin better. Conditions were similar for both sides - arguably England had the better of it as they won the toss.
To me, this is only a matter of degree. Preparing something that plays to your strenghts is fine - but you have to play on it too! This one probably turned a bit too much, but England also misread the conditions, picked a single spinner. IF they had played two half decent spinners, that game may have turned out with a different winner.
one thing's for sure, it ain't going to be a boring draw! I was gutted it was a 10pm NZT start; couldn't wait to watch some
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India has better spinners and their batsmen are better players of spin - and they are desperate to be the first World Test Champions.
They're not going to cut the English an even break.
Watch for the anomaly where India's players will be in England playing warm-up matches, while half our team is sitting in India watching the IPL!
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@catogrande said in World Test Championship:
@majorrage India are without doubt the better team and beforehand I would have just hoped for some degree of competitiveness. maybe England spanking India in the first test has had a knock on effect? Dunno but if this game had been played in the County Championship, the pitch would have been reported to the E&WCB.
I think if you have the will power to trawl through this thread, it was even suggested after India had levelled the series that this was a likelihood.
First test victory definitely had knock-on effect. The first test pitch is closer to what I would have thought India would want before series start, as these last 2 pitches reduce the skills gap and makes part-timers like Root lethal. But after they lost on that first test pitch, they were behind 8-ball and couldn't afford a few draws in the series due to WTC.
On your point about pitches being reported in county championship, if like this. yYes, but that is half, or 3/4s of England's problem. From what I gather from reading and podcats. Somerset have had pitches reported which were x times better than this pitch, but because they spun too much on day 1. Somerset have both Leach and Bess in their team. ECB are dumb to make all 18 counties have bland indistinguishable pitches. Dumb, retarded, stupid. Wrong people in charge, probably ex-batsmen.
Imagine having 18 FC domestic sides to choose from yet going into a dustbowl test with 4 seamers, 1 spinner and 1 part-timer.
In 20 years time, this test will be recalled for the crazy team selection more than the pitch. Like England's first test of 1993 tour to India where they picked 4 medium paced right-armers (plus 1 spinner) and India picked 3 spinners each of different type. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-tour-of-india-1992-93-61796/india-vs-england-1st-test-63598/full-scorecard )
Even though point about pitch in this case is probably valid, I don't know, it was over too soon for me to watch much!
I like good dustbowl or green seamer occasionally. Wouldn't want them every test, though. Varying conditions is what makes long-form cricket interesting.
