Is this pitches or mostly Ashwin/Jadeja who are absolutely relentless.
It's obviously both but it's not as if most Indian batsmen have had a great time on these surfaces of late either, and they don't get the excuse of facing Ashwin and Jadeja.
Oh f*** off I already gave you two howlers, want more?
Smith , Pujara and Rahul did well on exactly similar pitches in 2017
He'd have got something like a 3% increase on his lbw victims, so another 4 maybe??? The problem is, if spinners are getting more lbw victims, does that mean they're getting less caught/bowled/stumped etc etc?
Was just looking back to the England Tour in 2021. After the First Test on a relatively flattish pitch when Root got a double ton, there was a clear change in strategy for pitch creation. Make it turn a lot and back the Indian spinners to outbowl their counterparts. Highest Indian score in that series was 365 but they won it 3-1 with none of their 3 victories being remotely close contests.
Team management doesn’t trust our batting line up .So they ask for spin friendly wickets. And they are not wrong.
Now please show all the wickets given not out by umpires.
Don't think many of our Asia games change too much. 1st test in pak was so flat I doubt even warne could have made the game interesting, second test lyon took 5fer in the second dig anyway, 3rd test we won. 1st test in sri lanka we won aswell. Maybe we would have done better in the second test vs Sri lanka if warne was playing over lyon, don't think he would have done as poorly as lyon did, and he probably would have hung around with smith a bit longer in the first innings and given us an extra 30 odd runs. Not a huge difference but may have helped things a bit.
This is so dumb. Even in flatter conditions the ball is still going to aid spin and the Indian bowlers are the best home attack at the moment. Batters don't win games more than bowlers ffs.
The thing now is that wins are more valuable now and the general setup is fine at the moment with batting averages dipping for their bowlers to run free.
Even bowlers need some runs to defend . Your bowlers won’t look as dangerous if Team has 1st innings deficit of 100 runs .
Yeah, and the touring bowlers have always been worse than the Indian bowlers for a long time regardless of pitch types. So the Indian batters have always gotten to make more runs because the opposition don't have the control and wicket taking experience needed.
But look back to 2021, the ball did turn in the First Test but not enough to stop Root scoring a double. He literally won that Test by being the best batsman, unless you're going to try and convince me that Dom Bess is a better bowler than Ashwin!!
I am not disputing it . But team management has more faith on bowlers than batsmen . So want bowlers to dominate.
The first pitch was basically a road for 2 days and Root and co got to feed on Sundar and Nadeem as the 4th/5th options. Their next innings in spinning conditions they notably failed to pass 200 and that trend continued until Ahmedabad 4th Test. Root made a good double but Sibley and Stokes also made runs before they vanished along with Root for the rest of that series when India got a better bowler and more spinning conditions. At that 1st Test England got the same cushion of runs India have almost always enjoyed and so they got to bowl more aggressively without risking too much in the way of runs.
Bowlers win you games, ffs how is this so hard to understand? And it's not like they have no faith in batters either ffs.
India also had a decent batting line up in 2003-10.But Kumble wasn’t as good as Warne
But what if your team bowls first?