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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...
