a team chasing a target of 330 runs at home against a lowly ranked team... saves a test match by batting 75 odd overs... on a pitch that remained true till last ball...
cut to scene two...
a team coming behind from a precarious situation of 32/4 in first innings... facing a lead of 330 odd in second... bats 130 odd overs against a team that is ranked no. 2 to save a test match at home... on a pitch that remained true till last ball...
end result...?
the former was an 'engrossing' draw... a savior of test cricket... while the later was pronounced as a 'boring' draw that would kill test cricket...
the difference...?
one draw was played in australia... while the later... in india...
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tale of two draws seen from jaundiced eye...
shared by straight point on Friday, December 11, 2009
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tale of two tests seen from jaundiced eyes...
shared by straight point on Monday, November 30, 2009
i read this article from sidharth monga on cricinfo... the premise of the article is summed up as...
Just for the high quality of consistent fast bowling throughout the match, the Dunedin Test needs to be celebrated...
then what about kanpur test mr. monga...?
it had one team playing as attacking cricket as one would have seen recently... scoring nearly 5.50 runs per over for most part of the innings... scoring more than 400 runs in a day...
we get to see a 'troubled child' of indian cricket staging a comeback into team after good 18 months... making the ball talk both ways not only with new ball but old ball as well... the best reverse swing bowling on indian pitches after a while... on a pitch that was supposed to assist spin bowling... and finishing the game in three and half days... even when there were no demons in the pitch...
in nutshell... attacking test cricket at its best...
but no we must praise dunedin test coz that had pace bowlers doing a job under favorable overcast conditions representing teams that were hell bent on surrendering the initiative to other... there by making that test interesting only coz of their age old deficiencies...
never mind the fact that a pace bowler was man of the match in kanpur test match on a pitch and conditions that had little to do with it... but purely coz of his extraordinary skills...
but i guess the choice becomes easier in the end... coz on one side we had a test match that had equivalent of armani 'pace' tag attached on a picturesque location... and on another a test match that was played on subcontinent patta wicket... that had 'spin' tag attached to it like a stigma...
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