*Official* 3rd Test at the Sardar Patel Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, 24 - 28 Feb 2021

[SillyCowCorner1]

I just woke up expecting to see a riveting remainder of the day’s play...disappointed

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team play 4 seamers and 1 front line spinner and then open the bowling on day 2 with 2 spinners tbh

 

[Shri]

root darting it down leg defending 49 lol

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

I also wonder what the record for most LBW’s in a Test, must be fairly close?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Honestly a T20 would own on this pitch.

Binny 6/4 pitch was the last one in Lois that was truly meme worthy.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Are they really going for a dinner break?

Finish this **** now!

 

[cnerd123]

I wonder if they had the option to extend the session to get a result, and if they did, why it wasn't taken.

 

[Spark]

Honestly a T20 would own on this pitch.

not sure what it would prove since the game earlier today clearly proved that the best delivery to bowl in t20s are full tosses

 

[Arachnodouche]

Pains me to say this but apart from Rohit, Sandy Smith might be the only current batsman worth a damn on these sort of wickets. The pitch might be unpredictable, as everyone's pointing out, but I genuinely feel modern batsmen are hopeless at reading balls out the hand or off the pitch, and generally premeditate their shots with hard hands. Hardly any good at skipping down the wicket either. Smith checks all those boxes and then some.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

If we take 10 wickets for 36 in the next session we win.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Think you can hit the ball out of the meat of the bat on a spinning pitch? See how long you can last at meatspin.com

 

[GIMH]

The posts in here saying 'is the pitch really that bad?' have to be a pisstake

 

[wpdavid]

I wonder if Emburey and Edmonds might have in the 80s somewhere on the SC?

I'd be surprised if our spinners opened in the 1980s, not least because E&E never toured the SC together. But I was wrong about 1936/37 and also the first test in 1950/51; our quicker bowlers opened in both cases.

EDIT
No, it didn't happen in the 1980s. Probably pre-WW1.

 

[Ashwinashwath]

After a good fight England set up a tricky 50 runs to get in a slightly spinning pitch for the to be world test champions, India. My prediction is in track. India will win by 9 wickets if you remember some of my stellar posts.

 

[GIMH]

I wonder if they had the option to extend the session to get a result, and if they did, why it wasn't taken.

You should know this but I am fairly sure sessions other than the last one in the day only get extended if a team is 9 down.

 

[Ashwinashwath]

Axar and Ashwin will do well in Australia, New Zealand, England and South Africa too. Quality bowlers who did well in a flat track.

 

[duffer]

If we take 10 wickets for 36 in the next session we win.

Lame, 9 was enough in Adelaide

 

[Aritro]

The posts in here saying 'is the pitch really that bad?' have to be a pisstake

My post was prompted by the memory of worse pitches than this in the SC, and by having just witnessed some pretty shoddy batting. But yes, it's probably also a bad pitch for batting on.

 

[Arachnodouche]

The posts in here saying 'is the pitch really that bad?' have to be a pisstake

Yeah, no it isn't that bad. English batting on turners certainly is a pisstake though. Five innings in a row now.

 

[duffer]

The posts in here saying 'is the pitch really that bad?' have to be a pisstake

This is the greatest Test match ever. The pitch must be great