World Cricket II

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It was poor batting. Period. Warnerlaam century adikkaRAn - what happened to the senior batsmen? NZ - no need to say, never been quality batsmen. And their best batsman(Dan the man) was not there, too. Australia - Sad to see Ricky reduced to this: hope Umesh, Ishant, Vinay and co. can make him look better in the upcoming series but what will he do against Jimmy, Stuey, Timmy, Chrissy and Stevie in the next Ashes? Even Ten, Lax and Rahul might ne exposed in the upcoming series going by their capitulation in better conditions(Ten and Lax) and exhaustion of good form(Rah). Standards of batsmanship aren't great - therefore, these are not necessarily better matches for me. It is not as if we are watching a Wasim or Curtley masterclass bowling. We just have that bias against flat pitches in our mind. You enjoy what you can but don't bad-mouth variety in pitches. Malcolm Marshall terrorised a set of very good indian batsmen on their own pitches. Dale Steyn held his own against the galacticos on these pitches - so no whining against these pitches, please. Just deal with it - and understand that variety is the spice of life.