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***Official*** South Africa in India 2015
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harsh.ag
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Spark
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***** this is starting to sound quite lemony
Furball
Evil Scotsman
He's not wrong though is he?
Spark
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Nah, but he is going on about it a fair bit.
Mind you... 'Poor' Nagpur pitch under ICC scrutiny | cricket.com.au
If this is rated a poor pitch and Perth isn't then that tells you everything you need to know about their priorities, frankly.
Gnske
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Yeah but it makes them saltier than the Pacific Ocean so i'll eat that up gladly.
Not better than Rahane, he might be more effective than Kohli but I can't call him 'better' because of how good Kohli looks.
Bahnz
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Or maybe he thinks the pitch was poor
Left field theory I know but not beyond the reals of possibility
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Ok I am just gonna put it out there because apparently no one wants to acknowledge a big fat elephant in the room. I tried to bring it up in the Good Pitch thread and again no one wanted to address it.
This is not a debate about good pitch vs bad pitch or Trentbridge/Perth vs Nagpur or 'when their game ends in 3 days it's okay but when our game does everyone goes crazy' memes that are going around on social media.
The real conversation that everyone including Jeff Crowe, Ravi Shastri, pitch curators, BCCI stooges like Bhogle, cricket analysts, commentators, *****, cricketweb and any other stakeholder needs to have is this - if a pitch starts turning from Day 1, is it still a good cricket pitch or not? The traditional idea is that the pitch should only start turning from Day 4. And we have to be aware that if a pitch starts turning from Day 1, there is a high possibility that the match will not last 5 days which of course means loss of revenue and all that. Because that's all there was to Nagpur. The ball turned on Day 1 and we saw Day 4/5 scores from Day 1 onwards. It wasn't a dangerous pitch or anything, it just behaved on Day 1 the way it usually behaves on Day 4/5.
MS Dhoni is the only guy who talked about it so bluntly and as his fan, I have to be follow.
So let's stop mocking each other and being petty and instead focus on whether it's still a good pitch if the ball starts turning from Day 1.
This is not a debate about good pitch vs bad pitch or Trentbridge/Perth vs Nagpur or 'when their game ends in 3 days it's okay but when our game does everyone goes crazy' memes that are going around on social media.
The real conversation that everyone including Jeff Crowe, Ravi Shastri, pitch curators, BCCI stooges like Bhogle, cricket analysts, commentators, *****, cricketweb and any other stakeholder needs to have is this - if a pitch starts turning from Day 1, is it still a good cricket pitch or not? The traditional idea is that the pitch should only start turning from Day 4. And we have to be aware that if a pitch starts turning from Day 1, there is a high possibility that the match will not last 5 days which of course means loss of revenue and all that. Because that's all there was to Nagpur. The ball turned on Day 1 and we saw Day 4/5 scores from Day 1 onwards. It wasn't a dangerous pitch or anything, it just behaved on Day 1 the way it usually behaves on Day 4/5.
MS Dhoni is the only guy who talked about it so bluntly and as his fan, I have to be follow.
So let's stop mocking each other and being petty and instead focus on whether it's still a good pitch if the ball starts turning from Day 1.
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indiaholic
International Captain
Has been stated a million times in this thread. Absolutely zero issues if a pitch starts supporting turn from day one.
AndyZaltzHair
Hall of Fame Member
Pitches which were "reported" before by match referees,
1) Trent Bridge pitch rated as ?poor? by the match referee - ICC Cricket
2) 1st Test: Sri Lanka v Australia at Galle, Aug 31-Sep 3, 2011 | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
3)2nd Test: West Indies v South Africa at Basseterre, Jun 18-22, 2010 | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
1) Trent Bridge pitch rated as ?poor? by the match referee - ICC Cricket
2) 1st Test: Sri Lanka v Australia at Galle, Aug 31-Sep 3, 2011 | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
3)2nd Test: West Indies v South Africa at Basseterre, Jun 18-22, 2010 | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah but I don't think this is widely accepted across the cricketing fraternity yet. People still get surprised and confused. I wish BCCI in their response would highlight this issue.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Issue with pitches isn't seam or turn. It's uneven turn which this pitch saw from day 1. Usually pitches have that from day 4 or 5. If there was a pitch offering uneven seam movement off the surface from day 1, it would come under lot of criticism too. It's not a west v east issue ffs.
