World Test Championship
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@act-crusader this is scarcely believable!
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Now Root gets beaten first ball.
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@donsteppa less than 26 all out and will be a great day of cricket š
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As @nzzp alluded to earlier, this test championship is up with there with sliced bread.
In gone by days this game/series would be a novelty that you might read about the next day or week, and bemoan a weird pitch or apathetic batting. But with the final up for grabs it's bloody riveting, nearly exciting.Good stuff all round!
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Patel now has 8 wickets for the match.
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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.
Iām 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
