***Official*** South Africa in India 2015

[Jono]

Just read through this thread.

Holy ****. Peak CricketWeb WAHHH. Really embarrassing stuff.

South Afri-waahhh

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[indiaholic]

Even if you definitively hate this kind of pitch for whatever reason, you have to admit it exposes the batsmen beautifully and you get to see just how much they trust their technique. Only Amla and Duminy really looked like they had a clue in the end and maybe du Plessis who looked like he learned a thing or two from his horrid faux pas.

The pitch just brutally exposed the issues already present with the SA batsmen, you can see how the rest were so bereft of confidence. Van Zyl and Vilas in particular are at different ends of the spectrum, one has no footwork and prods with heavenly hope and Vilas dances down like a man who is afraid of the ball hitting the pitch.

AB was similar surprisingly, he's such a genius yet during those two innings you could have mistaken him for Vilas with all the tangles he was getting in dancing back and forth.


Won't kick the dead horse over the pitch but it was interesting viewing.

Agreed with most of the above. AB was done in by some superb bowling though.. Set up beautifully and then the carom ball that he just did not pick.

 

[duffer]

So much fun seeing these factions among the Indian fans on CW

First you've got Jono, OS, ***** and Shri always liking each other's posts and putting up one unified front,
then you've got Pratters vs HB
Then Pratters vs Joe
And then you've got Weldone who seems to have pissed off all the other Indian fans for some reason

Pratters gets all the good feuds First with sledger and now with these two.

 

[Shri]

I wouldn't call it a feud. That implies a fight. This is just a case of one guy's opinions getting **** on over and over.

 

[Jono]

Oh well

Good nine years sawn off by a toss of a coin

Its a tough call, but I think this was the ****test post in this thread.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I think Dravid is simultaneously right and wrong, ftr. You don't want all Ranji pitches to turn square from Day 1, but you do want some to. You don't want all Ranji pitches to be greentops, but it is helpful when some are. You don't want all Ranjipitches to be roads, but, again, some being roads are helpful.

You want the multiplicity of Test conditions replicated at FC level; no country does that and until they do, the inability of international teams to win away will likely continue (barring the advent of a ridiculous ATG level team)

Different types of pitches across the country in domestic competition is an excellent proposition.

 

[Howe_zat]

Its a tough call, but I think this was the ****test post in this thread.

It was definitely the Sydney 2008 thing.

 

[Jono]

First you've got Jono, OS, ***** and Shri always liking each other's posts and putting up one unified front,:

Haha that's such an odd view because I feel like OS, ***** and I disagree with each other just as much as we agree. I reckon OS and I debate heaps. Its just that we post in all the same threads and have similar cricket interests.

 

[Jono]

Watching highlights. The Ishant hairstyle discussion on day 3

 

[OverratedSanity]

Black_Warrior liking a tec post calling us ICF fans was the most offensive thing in the thread. I mean, I expect tec to post bs but a sensible poster liking it almost made me cry.

 

[Gnske]

Agreed with most of the above. AB was done in by some superb bowling though.. Set up beautifully and then the carom ball that he just did not pick.

I guess it was just disappointing in the way that you would expect a batsman of AB's gravitas the spot the old drag down, drag down and then slide one in tactic.

But yeah probably not giving Ashwin enough credit, played his harp to perfection.

 

[indiaholic]

Black_Warrior liking a tec post calling us ICF fans was the most offensive thing in the thread.

What is ICF?

 

[Teja.]

Just read through this thread.

Holy ****. Peak CricketWeb WAHHH. Really embarrassing stuff.




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Just had to stop reading during the whole 'I joined in 2012 and you in 2011 but your countrymen were embarrassing on the interwebs during Sydney 2008 so fuuuuu I win this debate' for the sake of my sanity tbh.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I wouldn't call it a feud. That implies a fight. This is just a case of one guy's opinions getting **** on over and over.

HHH vs Booker T then?

 

[duffer]

HHH vs Booker T then?

Heh

 

[Jono]

wahhhh don't remind me of that, already suffered enough reading this thread.

 

[Gnske]

wahhhh don't remind me of that, already suffered enough reading this thread.

Then never disappear ever again guy, look what happens when you do.

 

[honestbharani]

Clarke's 100% right on the 'good cricket' bit IMO. The best cricket match is one where every single player, irrespective of their playing style, is involved in the game, able to test one another at every level. This game marginalised fast bowlers to a significant extent; it wasn't 'good cricket' in that sense. The WACA marginalised bowlers. English greentops marginalise spinners.

That best cricket match can never happen.

But watching batsmen being tested by high-class spin on a spin-friendly track? It may not meet that definition of 'good' cricket, but its ****ing enthralling viewing. Which, in itself, is ****ing awesome to have from time to time. It'd suck if it happened every single game across the world, but it doesn't. We have a multiplicity of Test conditions, and that's great. We shouldn't feel obliged to homogenise them to conform to some arbitrary standard of average-ness, with average help for seamers on Day 1, average help for batsmen on Day 2 and 3, and average help for spinners on Day 5. It'd make for overwhelmingly average Test cricket.

TBH it might just put an end to some pretty average posting here at CW...


BTW ready to admit Vijay is modern Bradman yet?

 

[Pratters]

Why should such pitches be acceptable at test level even. Careers are on the line. Some one has two bad tests in this series and it can hamper their career.

 

[indiaholic]

Why should such pitches be acceptable at test level even. Careers are on the line. Some one has two bad tests in this series and it can hamper their career.

To enable creative destruction. In a world of flat pitches, the batsmen become stale, skills stagnate and we are stuck in a world of zero growth. Having tough pitches like these incessantly revolutionize batting from within, destroy the old care free techniques and give rise to new and better Vijays.