recently a side got out to 88 runs and had it not being the ineptness of the team that bowled them out... the match would have been over in 2 and a half days...
yesterday another team came close to get bowled out to even less... it didn't... yet even after the bad light stoppage and a wicket keeper standing as 12th man for opposition team... the match could still be over in three days...
i saw as many as seven fielders in the slip cordon and wicket taking was not an event anymore... run making was...
cut to ssc...
the wickets were at premium there... the premium was so high that captains... even before bowlers... stopped thinking about purchasing them and let batters collect as many freebies as possible... how high the premium on wickets was can be proved by the fact that... one captain... sangakkara was seen having sweepers on even for no.10 and 11 batsmen... yet some call him attacking captain but that's beside the point...
on one pitch batsmen were there to just go and edge it to the gleefully waiting seven slip fielders... and on another fielders were employed as far from batsmen as possible to stop run making...
while in both cases there was just no competition between bat and ball... yet its only the ssc pitch which draws the criticism...
so correct me if i am wrong... it can be safely concluded that yawning draws on five days on flat pitches are test match killers... but a lottery of a pitch where 'who can pitch ball straight to get wicket'... where 'match' is as good as over in almost half days allotted for 'test'... actually saves the test cricket...
Showing posts with label sporting pitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sporting pitch. Show all posts
let's have a ball then...
shared by straight point on Saturday, July 31, 2010
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straight hits!
what is sporting pitch…?
shared by straight point on Saturday, July 18, 2009
hello...any demons there...?the general consensus has been that it should be batting beauty for first two days and later should aid seamers and spinner alike...there should be enough bounce to keep the bowlers interested who are ready to bend their back...while the ball should come at nice pace to bat so that batsmen get the full worth of their shots...
if all pitches are gonna be this ‘sporting’ then what about the geographical parameters...?
where will be the home advantage...?
...and then there is discrimination on ‘sporting’ wickets too...
if the pitch offers seam or swing movement from ball one they say that batsmen were tested for their technique to play good seam/swing bowling...
but if the same ball takes slightest of spin from day one...they say oh what a bad pitch...name it dust bowl...as if that spinning wicket doesn’t test batsmen’s technique...
if pitch is offering good bounce they say...get ready for some chin music dude...
but if ball keeps bit low they discard it as under prepared pitch...
there will always be some prickyfication (synonym to whining when on receiving end of it while happily doing the same at every possible opportunity) on pitches...
so how to have unanimous ‘sporting’ wickets...?
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