Traditional test venues

[Gollum]

Hope after this debacle we stick to our traditional test venues like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru etc.

This bullshit experiment of playing tests in  B grade cities and D grade pitches has to stop. We can play ODIs,T20s, IPL etc there. 

[Adi_91]

Totally agree. 3 new venues in a single series, which by no means is a nothing series was shocking.

[kubrickian]

Perhaps it has to do with Lauda committee and their criticism that BCCI is not doing enough to spread cricket to other areas.

[BeautifulGame]

Perhaps it has to do with Lauda committee and their criticism that BCCI is not doing enough to spread cricket to other areas.

 

These were allocated by Thakur when he was president.U think it's just a coincidence his home ground is hosting the decider

[Gollum]

56 minutes ago, kubrickian said:

Perhaps it has to do with Lauda committee and their criticism that BCCI is not doing enough to spread cricket to other areas.

Nahi re, venues were decided by Thakur and co.

[zen]

Nothing against expanding the test center base. I would say Ind develop 12 test centers - 3 in each region

 

North - Delhi, Mohali and Dharamshala

West - Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Baroda / Rajkot

South - Chennai, Banglore and Hy'bad

East / Center - Kolkatta, Nagpur?, ? 

 

 

[Laaloo]

10 minutes ago, zen said:

Nothing against expanding the test center base. I would say Ind develop 12 test centers - 3 in each region

 

North - Delhi, Mohali and Dharamshala

West - Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Baroda / Rajkot

South - Chennai, Banglore and Hy'bad

East / Center - Kolkatta, Nagpur?, ? 

 

 

Please no more matches to rajkot or Baroda or Mohali. No one comes to watch. But we did have awesome crowd in Indore and vishakapatnam. Maybe those centers can be worked out. I'm tired of seeing Mohali but most of our great moments in the last decade have come in Mohali. 

[Adi_91]

Just now, laaloo said:

Please no more matches to rajkot or Baroda or Mohali. No one comes to watch. But we did have awesome crowd in Indore and vishakapatnam. Maybe those centers can be worked out. I'm tired of seeing Mohali but most of our great moments in the last decade have come in Mohali. 

Agreed. Mohali against Aus in the recent past has been special too

[Trichromatic]

What's wrong with the series?

 

Except Pune 3 venues have been good. Spinners taking 5-fers (Jadeja and Ashwin), Lyon taking 8-fer once and getting tonked other times, Ashwin struggling when he bowled poorly. Good batting has been rewarded, poor batting haven't got freebies (Kohli, Warner), pacers have taken wickets and played their part.

 

If anything this has been much balanced series.