**Official** 5th Test at Sydney, 3-7 Jan 2025

[ImpatientLime]

It's very obvious and it's been mentioned a few times .... in the last 2 India tours previous to this Australia produced normal Aussie wickets (flat, great for the batsman), and India won 2 test series in a row on traditional batting wickets.
So Australia can't risk a flat batting pitch in a Test they can't afford to lose, so they produced the greenest wicket EVER seen in Australia. Coincidence? Not even a stubborn Aussie thinks it's not a coincidence that the greenest wicket ever seen in an Aussie test match is during the final game of the series when india need to win.

Yet when an Asian team do things like that Aussies turn into a bunch of border line racists. Double standards, it will never be forgotten. Yes an Asian doctored wicket means shite spinners do well, it doesn't quite work like that for seam bowlers on a green wicket - that doesn't mean Aussies are doing exactly what india have done with their pitches.

maybe india should bring some batsman next time?

 

[Singh Is King]

maybe india should bring some batsman next time?

When they did they won 2 series in a row in Australia.

 

[subshakerz]

I mean the wickets prepared for NZ series didn’t help india either. They neutralized their best bowler and removed the quality difference between the spinners too.

Those wickets weren't that unusual, it was just that Ashwin Jadeja performed below their usual standards.

 

[ImpatientLime]

When they did they won 2 series in a row in Australia.

sounds like an india problem rather than a pitch problem. glad we could reach this resolution calmly without the need to call each other flogs.

 

[Nintendo]

You just produced the greenest wicket ever seen in Australia knowing full well india are shite on them.....

when an Asian team does things like that Aussies turn into border line racists

Yes because obviously Australia did this to target india specifically. Not like we've done the exact same thing every touring season for the past 4 years, including against SA, when it matches their home conditions. Get a grip.

 

[Singh Is King]

We don’t doctor wickets . We make the spinners irrelevant so much that in a 5 match Test series , 3 spinners with nearly 1400 Test wkts don’t have even combined 15 wkts to show .

Shhhh only Asian teams modify their wickets as you can see from the typical Aussie replies, they play the game with honour unlike Asian teams apparently

You won't get a normal reply here to that fair point you made about spinners Sunil1z. The Aussies here like to get personal when their honour is questioned

 

[Blenkinsop]

Perhaps next time India win the toss on the greenest pitch in cricket history they might want to consider bowling first? Just a thought.

 

[morgieb]

very sane and normal behaviour imo

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Those accounts don’t represent the majority of Indian fans, I hope.

This is disturbing and disgusting to see.

 

[Singh Is King]

very sane and normal behaviour imo

No sane person would ever defend that disgusting behaviour. Absolutely vile.
However we are simply having a pitches debate here.

 

[TheJediBrah]

very sane and normal behaviour imo

bunch of Indian supporters were posting abusive comments on Travis Head's wife's instagram the other day too

Between the fan abuse, crazy comments from Sidhu, Gavaskar etc and the unhinged anti logic of Cricket Chat's newest blow in Singh is King, stocks in the honour of Indian Cricket are in free fall

 

[TheJediBrah]

No sane person would ever defend that disgusting behaviour. Absolutely vile.
However we are simply having a pitches debate here.

Green pitch doesn't help Australia here, debate over. Your claims are absurd and illogical. That was constructive thank you

 

[Spark]

very sane and normal behaviour imo

The fact that "Phillip Hughes" was bolded makes this is a pretty textbook case of nutpicking tbh

 

[ImpatientLime]

which singh btw? hopefully robin. the most based of 90s bits and pieces ODI cricketers. very good at #7 on brian lara cricket 99.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

which singh btw? hopefully robin. the most based of 90s bits and pieces ODI cricketers. very good at #7 on brian lara cricket 99.

As unIndian an India player for the time as possible. Was born in T&T though, I think.

 

[honestbharani]

It doesn't, but they've had pretty consistent problems with pitch preparation there in the last few years.

This pitch is slightly actually reminiscent of the pitch in this Shield game: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...vs-tasmania-17th-match-1391786/full-scorecard - this was an absolute minefield, completely impossible to bat on normally by about halfway through Day 2 (which is why I'm somewhat concerned with respect to this game). Tim Paine gave the SCG curator a proper spray on radio after this game and rightly so.

It's been pitches like that or some of the slowest, most turgid puddings you can imagine, with little in between. I really don't think they know what they're doing up there right now.

Yeah, if this is not a drop in it may well get worse and worse to bat on.

 

[Qlder]

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very sane and normal behaviour imo

Why did you copy that sick crap from another forum to this one. Disgusting!

 

[Spark]

Yeah, if this is not a drop in it may well get worse and worse to bat on.

That's absolutely my fear and why I genuinely wasn't Gambhiring when I said this game feels uncomfortably close to even given the first innings score. I think Aus need a real first innings lead of substance to have any advantage in this game. Batting last on this surface could get incredibly challenging if the bounce becomes more and more inconsistent.

 

[honestbharani]

very sane and normal behaviour imo

I mean there are tweets of Siraj being called a brown dog and racist **** too. I am not sure what your point here is? Coz we all now what sort of "Fans" post most stuff on social media no matter where they are from.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The fact that "Phillip Hughes" was bolded makes this is a pretty textbook case of nutpicking tbh

I think it’s bolded because it was trending on Twitter.