*Official* 2nd Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, 13 - 17 Feb 2021

[Lillian Thomson]

we win if we get 50

edit i mean 150

Or just forfeit the second innings and still win.

 

[Burgey]

That is unfair to the team batting first..isn't it? So if the team is skittled for 100 odd then how is that a fair cricket and good pitch?
At least here, the turn is there for all days. Only thing that matters is if you have quality spinners or not in your team..
and if your batsman can cope up with a turning ball or not.. It is simply a matter of skill and nothing to do with pitches or luck..
If a team doesn't have good spinners to take wickets in this pitch ,it's a their lack of skill..

If someone doesn't see this fact, then they are biased too much or don't have the slightest IQ to understand cricket...
As simple as that..

Lol no it isn’t unfair to the team batting first at all. Anymore than this pitch is unfair to a side batting last which gets skittled for 100. The difference is a pitch which starts green showcases a diversity of skills across the game. If a pitch goes through the top and rags from day one, you rule out one of the skill sets in the game.

it’s why pitches like this are inferior and historically have led to side which dish them out being inferior too

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Foakes is such a compact player, really needs an extended run in the side from now on

EDIT : brilliant grab from Pant!

It's a shame that it is going a bit unnoticed, Foakes looks so bloody prepared, both behind the stumps and with the bat.

 

[Robbie]

Why was Broad batting at number 11?

There was a rumour he was going to sweep one of the first balls he faced off middle stump and miss it, leaving a set batsman at the other end.

 

[Burgey]

I mean I wouldn't want pitches like this all the time but they're definitely something I don't mind seeing every now and then. They're certainly a much more interesting contest than horrible roads where the main wicket taker is S. Pressure but that the ICC seems to think are fine.

Oh they’re good for a change for sure. There’s no doubt though that if they’d produced this last week and got belted they’d have come up with something different on the adjacent deck too.

at the end of the day, if you’re opening with a spinner days one and two it’s basically the 1880s and a retrograde step for the sport

 

[centurymaker]

would be funny if these ****s whinged about a proper turner

this is the perfect indian pitch that has moderate assistance for spinners throughout

good bounce and predictable turn

no balls that keep low or shoot through at ankle height

****ers should learn to play spin when its bowled by skillful spinners

batsmen can attack if they're good enough like pant and rohit showed us

batsmen can play a patient innings like rahane showed us and foakes is showing us right now

clueless ****s are going to be clueless tbh

Totally agree wth you mate

 

[karan_fromthestands]

That was dismal. India bowled well from what I saw, but the pitch was still manageable.

I thought England did very well to bowl India out for 329, but the batting was abysmal.

Nope, they should have bundled out India for 200-250. Plenty of turn on offer. Leach is good, Mo could have done a little better, and may be a third spinner would have helped.

 

[Deleted member 38150]

Lol no it isn’t unfair to the team batting first at all. Anymore than this pitch is unfair to a side batting last which gets skittled for 100. The difference is a pitch which starts green showcases a diversity of skills across the game. If a pitch goes through the top and rags from day one, you rule out one of the skill sets in the game.

it’s why pitches like this are inferior and historically have led to side which dish them out being inferior too

you are talking in circles. Either you don't understand or don't want to..
Whether it's a turning pitch or swinging pitch, the team that has the players with better skills to cope up with the condition wins..
If you don't have good players for that condition, you end up losing.
Both swing/spin are part of cricket and if your team doesn't have good enoughp players for a condition, blame your player for lack of skill
Not the condition. If you have only cry babies, better stick to only those conditions where your team can win

 

[Burgey]

Totally agree wth you mate

Oh well then, must be right

 

[Deleted member 38150]

Oh they’re good for a change for sure. There’s no doubt though that if they’d produced this last week and got belted they’d have come up with something different on the adjacent deck too.

at the end of the day, if you’re opening with a spinner days one and two it’s basically the 1880s and a retrograde step for the sport

why is opening with a spin bowler bad? So you dont consider spin as a skill in cricket?
If yes, then stop watching any match where a spinner is playing.. watch baseball ffs. ?‍

 

[Teja.]

This is the same pitch that Pant was batting on ffs.

Not even a dustbowl and not crumbling at all, just a darty spinner pitch.

 

[Burgey]

Both swing/spin are part of cricket and if your team doesn't have good enoughp players for a condition, blame your player for lack of skill

Thanks Maestro Leonardo, but the point you aren’t following despite its abject simplicity is a deck which starts as this one did only favours the one skill set. It’s devolves, it doesn’t evolve.

 

[Spikey]

The English whinged when mighty Somerset produced turners and now they're whinging again.

 

[Burner]

Lol no it isn’t unfair to the team batting first at all. Anymore than this pitch is unfair to a side batting last which gets skittled for 100. The difference is a pitch which starts green showcases a diversity of skills across the game. If a pitch goes through the top and rags from day one, you rule out one of the skill sets in the game.

it’s why pitches like this are inferior and historically have led to side which dish them out being inferior too

Haha, you've got to be joking. 6 of the 20 wickets thats gone down this game has been to fast bowlers. That's still vastly more action than a spinner gets on a greentop.

 

[Gnske]

Great bowling, truly a threat this newcomer Moeen.

 

[Gnske]

Wow thank god Bess isn't playing

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So next test we will probably go with

Sibley
Crawley
Bairstow
Root
Stokes
Pope
Foakes
Bess
Leach
Broad/Archer/Wood/Stone
Anderson

 

[honestbharani]

Its worth a fair bit more than many on here tbh given he’s played the sport with a four piece cricket ball in lieu of a taped tennis one.

So glad you agree your opinions are worthless compared to Sunny G's on cricket.

 

[honestbharani]

I’m glad you read it because you’re well aware it’s true

A billion people living rent free in his head.

 

[Deleted member 38150]

Thanks Maestro Leonardo, but the point you aren’t following despite its abject simplicity is a deck which starts as this one did only favours the one skill set. It’s devolves, it doesn’t evolve.

It's YOU who don't understand basic facts.. and taking some BS..How many wickets are taken by spinners in average in green tops? Heck how many spin bowlers are even in the team generally? Which is the more one sided pitch.. In this match fast bowlers did take wickets if you even looked at the score card.. Look at how Rohit is playing in this same pitch now.. If this is not a difference in skill you can see, you are a hypocrite having bias, and no point in talking to you any further..