World Cricket II

[Plum]

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.

[Bala (Karthik)]

I prefer batsmen struggling to plundering.

Absolutely!!!!

[Bala (Karthik)]

Plum
The problem is exactly with variety - the lack therof. Ellame flat tracks aittu varudhu....

[P_R]

Flau,

batting, bowling talent waning as they stand flat-fitch, greentop, idhula edhu frefer paNNuveenga. All Indians are my brothers and sisters, therefore flat pitch-nu sollappadaadhu Indha oversexed six,four fests paarthu kaduppAgudhu - nErthu Pollardhavan paththu six-aamE! What a pity.
Aus first innings - 2/3 lbws, rest all caught behind. paakuradhukkE evvaLO nallA irunchu.

Chris Martin > Kieron Pollard 'ngrEn. avvaLo dhaan pA

[Plum]

I am fine with Hobart type matches. I am saying do not assume an air of superiorityngaREn. Within India, can there be more variety? Absoutely. IvLO En, all we need is a match each in Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata every India series - that itself will ensure decent variety and quality test matches, esp Chennai. I am not for blindly shaving off Grass in all indian venues. But the thing is Do Not Assume an Air of Superiority for your pitches and conditions - they just happen to be what they are and contribute to the variety in World Cricket. Another thing: whenever a pitch slightly favours spin, icc gives a warning. The colombo test which Clarke and co were happy with still got a warning. I only can see that as a pressure tactic of warning groundsmen and venues from pitches favouring spin. It could also be that groundsmen are wary of producng spinning pitches, but cannot produce green ones because India won't like it - that they are forced to prepare flatties. If ICC's bias against spinning pitches is eradicated, we might see better (spin-favouring) pitches in india than flatter ones.

[Bala (Karthik)]

Plum
Chennai-a? with the present day wicket?????

[P_R]

Flau, it wasn't anti-spin. First day deterioration. Bounce aanadhum sumoke ellAm vandhuchchu.
So, what-nu kEkkalaam. naan innum andha aLavu pakkuvappadalai.

[Bala (Karthik)]

Bounce aanadhum sumoke ellAm vandhuchchu.

[KV]

Flau, it wasn't anti-spin. First day deterioration. Bounce aanadhum sumoke ellAm vandhuchchu.
So, what-nu kEkkalaam. naan innum andha aLavu pakkuvappadalai.

you're in some wild form today!

[ajithfederer]

Flau, it wasn't anti-spin. First day deterioration. Bounce aanadhum sumoke ellAm vandhuchchu.
So, what-nu kEkkalaam. naan innum andha aLavu pakkuvappadalai.