*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[Arachnodouche]

There's enough "natural variation", primarily balls staying low, to cause trouble in the 4th innings. We should take this if we can get up to 400+.

 

[Shri]

i made a 100 bucks in three hours instead of watching poo bat

i am only working from 11 - 2 pm tomorrow so i'll be around hopefully and watch more of the game

 

[GotSpin]

There's enough "natural variation", primarily balls staying low, to cause trouble in the 4th innings. We should take this if we can get up to 400+.

I don’t think it’s going to deteriorate enough

Australia may just get themselves out though

 

[Burgey]

There's enough "natural variation", primarily balls staying low, to cause trouble in the 4th innings. We should take this if we can get up to 400+.

It’ll just flatten out. Smith would still be batting on last year’s deck here if it was a timeless test. Just had nothing as the game went on.

 

[GotSpin]

Kohli looked average today tbh

 

[Daemon]

Kohli looked average today tbh

Yeah the boundaries were brilliant as always but he was outbatted by Agarwal and Pujara easily.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah, looked very streaky. On a pitch with better carry he wouldn't have been this lucky.

 

[Maximas]

What the hell has happened to this pitch since the 2013/14 ashes?

 

[Aritro]

I turned up to the ground at 3 and left at 5. That was ****ing excruciating.

 

[aussie tragic]

Something really wrong with cricket in Australia when the Perth BBL pitch is greener than the Test pitch

 

[morgieb]

What the hell has happened to this pitch since the 2013/14 ashes?

Groundsman change perhaps? It's always been fairly flat but before that scores typically weren't that high, the last five wickets have been runfests though.

 

[stephen]

Thing is there was plenty of grass on the pitch, just no life at all.

 

[Spark]

It was never a particularly fun pitch to watch cricket on but it showed enough for the bowlers to keep the contest fairly even between bat and ball. But at some point a few years ago it just flattened out, presaged by a bunch of 400+ 4th innings chases, and soon became the worst pitch in the world

 

[flibbertyjibber]

They need to transport the Perth square across. This is as flat and slow as last year. Just a dirge

I gave up and went to bed very early as you could tell this was not going to entertain, if that pitch last week was poor then god knows what rating this one will get.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Was the 98 all out in Ashes 2010 also a drop in pitch?

 

[Spark]

Was the 98 all out in Ashes 2010 also a drop in pitch?

That was all down to Anderson and the overhead conditions, Cook and Strauss soon demonstrated that the pitch itself had very little life in it.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Nah mate. I was at the ground and I remember that game clearly. There was prodigious movement off the pitch in the first morning. Australia just did not have a skilled enough attack to exploit and once you're bowled out for 98, it becomes difficult to apply and sustain pressure even with help from the pitch

Not to take credit away from Anderson (before the fanboys get here). That was probably his best performance in Australia

 

[Spark]

Nah mate. I was at the ground and I remember that game clearly. There was prodigious movement off the pitch in the first morning. Australia just did not have a skilled enough attack to exploit and once you're bowled out for 98, it becomes difficult to apply and sustain pressure even with help from the pitch

The overhead conditions were clearly a big factor though. Anderson was getting significant movement in the air.

 

[social]

If not for tradition, the MCG would be a backwater as it’s clearly the worst pitch of any major ground in Australia

It will never happen but CA should threaten to take the Boxing Day test away

 

[Top_Cat]

Rod Marsh spent an entire chapter in a book from about 1985 bitching about the MCG deck. It's a Boxing Day tradition as much as the Boxing Day match itself and for one support it.