OverratedSanity
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Agree so much. There's always been a trend where we've been faced with atleast one greentop/difficult tracks on many overseas tours right from the 90s to the present day. In the 90s, no one apart from Sachin had the ability to do well on those surfaces and we kept losing. As our batting got better and better, though, it's no surprise that many of our greatest overseas victories (Headingley 2002, Durban 2006 and 2011, etc) have come on pitches which favour the bowlers. All it does is eliminate our real weakness, which is pace bowling, because any international bowler will honestly cause problems on such tracks . Have no idea why other nations produce these sort of pitches tbh. It's no surprise that when we were faced with sporting pitches, which had something in them for the bowlers, but required good bowling to actually get wickets we usually got clobbered. If this pitch remains this green, I really fancy our chancesAnyone that things a green track with nz not having Taylor is worse for India is naive and getting sucked in to old stereotypes. If it plays like it looks, the game just became a lottery. Why would you want that at home? And only one team is missing their best batsman.
Nz probably still favourites but not by as much now.
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