FWIW I actually vastly prefer the latter (i.e. "it stays incredibly difficult throughout") to the former ("it flattens out completely and becomes a road by the 4th innings") which I view as manifestly unfair to the poor sods who invariably get sent in on day 1; not only do they get the most difficult batting conditions, but they have to cop the most difficult bowling conditions too.
LOL, who is being the victim here? Indians never complain about the pitches.
Hahahaha noooooo. Everyone complains about pitches, without exception.
yep, the basin reserve circa 2013-17 was exactly this and it was awful despite putting on some great test matches like the mccullum 300 game.
Yeah for sure, which is why I said they’re both poor decks. Either extreme is fine on the odd occasion from an entertainment POV but that doesn’t make either of them good wickets. It’s been done to death in the match and the pitch threads already, but the idea it was somehow a good deck is terrible revisionism from the supporters of the side which won. If they’d been dicked they’d have been filthy at it too.
In recent times, when has the Indian team/ex-crickters gone out and complained about the pitch? There might be one or two individuals, but that might be it, you don't see too much of pitch talk. The players are criticised and rightly so.
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Yeah this is far more of a shitty excuse than the minefield of a pitch is tbh. It’s odd people haven’t realised this wasn’t the first time finger spinners had bowled in a pink ball test. The difference here was the pitch was a turgid hell hole. It’s ok, **** happens. As HB said in another thread, it’s a new ground and you move on.
the teams and players don't complain because they know they'll be labelled sore losers, they have enough media handling to understand that by now. but everytime this pitch was brought up there is the "but what about sena pitches that favour seam bowlers" from fans. is that not a complaint or am i misunderstanding english
The doctored “fusarium” pitch? The fungus infected 22 yard pitch in the middle of a stunning, green, verdant award? Yeah it was ****ing terrible. The Oval 2009 was pathetic too, the way it was ****ed around with. Basically turned it into Chennai day four as a one off. Transparent as ****.
I am not saying anything based on the nationality, nor am I going to argue more on this. It's just my personal opinion that the success of SC teams is not taken really well by some people. There are similar people on our side as well, like Gavaskar, who'll not give enough credit to the opposition players. I am against both!
"What about sena pitches that favour seam bowlers" is a counter, it's just a way of saying that things are same everywhere. When India does badly in an away series, there is no discussion of the pitch. Players are thoroughly criticised.
One of the things from playing our C team - taking the test to 5th day.
I don’t know. You should explain to him you didn’t switch on to watch til after tea on day five so you aren’t sure what happened in the lead up to then, and ask him.
