HA, dont let the Indian fans on this site hear you say that pitch was flat sir, they are going to cry out..
This is getting ridiculous. Continous baiting of Indian members on the forum on Sehwag isue.
. I got a fish...
I'll take Tendulkar's word over yours thanks.
Well no you dont have to believe me, i saw the game BTW (specifically the highlights of the Sehwag/Tendy partnership) so its was never arguing just on reading the test scorecard.
It is funny that a actual South African poster called the pitch flat, when i was bashed for saying so. Thus no-one can say i have a biased agenda towards Viru, so you can go argue with the South African now..
Tendulkar knows nothing about cricket.. aussie knows everything.. y r we even arguing?
I remember that Test well and the deck offered a decent bit in the opening session-and-a-bit, hence Pollock (who was by then only capable of bowling really well on seaming decks no longer flat ones) and co. reduced India to 60-odd for 4. Tendulkar played superbly for 20 overs or so to coast that out, Sehwag played really well for about 5-6 overs to do likewise. They then both made spectacular hay when the deck flattened-out, which it did and remained thus for the rest of the game.
Perhaps, but it is a double-edged sword. Sehwag's potential has been maximised as an opener, in this generation, because he is able to dispatch the new ball which comes on and flies off the bat quicker than the old ball, does.
Not sure about that, considering the amount of openers that we got through in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Most of them were poor cricketers though. At times it's quite visibly easier to bat against a new ball in India than an old ball. After the 20th over there are either spinners or fast bowlers bowling reverse swing, both of whom are more effective than quicks bowling with a new ball that isn't doing anything.
The lack of good Indian openers (apart from Gavaskar) as compared to good middle order players, which has been a trend in our cricketing history, till the 2000s, is good proof of the fact hat opening has not been actually that easy a job in India.
Bullet..thats my boy i know for fact uncle Richard does turk cricket on Skysports like me..
In recent years it has been (as elsewhere) but before 2001/02 batting at most Indian Test grounds was usually a trial by spin. There has always been the odd ground which typically produces the "slow ****heap" which offers nothing to any bowler and doesn't make scoring especially easy either (what I just call a "bad pitch"), but until pretty recently there were more spin-friendly decks than not.