Who knows? If they wanted a real turner make a new pitch, water it, roll it only lightly and scalp it. While a couple of balls have gone through the surface it's not real crumbly. I'm surprised that they still left the layer of dead grass on it.
I'd debate that it's suited for test cricket in Australia either. It's only been tolerable with grassier pitches in recent years.
FTFY
He seems to be luckier than Babar too. These two certainly had a bit since lunch.
Specialist batters will love the ball. Specialist bowlers certainly won't.
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Bowlers win you matches. Batsmen don't.
I think they've used it in tests for a while. There were rumblings for a long time because they used a different, cheaper brand (Gray's I think) in domestic cricket.
I'd say England's ability to rack up 800 in the last Test was fairly key to Pakistan imploding in their 2nd innings.
It's a point I generally have sympathy for and is true more often than not, but I think it'd be wrongheaded to try to argue that it wasn't Root's and Brook's runs that won the first test.
Agreed, might have caught the one before lunch had he been stood closer.
Certainly not disagreeing with that.
Sure , in general.
