Africans messed with the wanderers pitch prior to Day 4 start.

[surajmal]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/22300070/india-surprised-dampness-wanderers-pitch-final-day

 

 

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A team source told ESPNcricinfo that the pitch on day four was the flattest out of all the days of the Test, which didn't make sense to them because the surface had got progressively difficult to bat on, to the extent that the umpires, worried about the players' safety, suspended play on the third evening. The team believes the dampness helped bind the pitch.

 

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India feel this was more than normal sweating. "When we looked at the pitch first thing in the morning, it was wet," an India team source told ESPNcricinfo. "It was very wet to the touch."

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India believe the dampness delayed the return of the pitch to its natural self. "The way the ball misbehaved after tea, it should have started that after the first half hour," the source said. TV experts also felt the pitch had become less unfriendly to bat on, with Sunil Gavaskar lying down on the pitch during the lunch break, suggesting it had gone to sleep.

 

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After the suspension of play on day three, they were left hoping the pitch would not misbehave further because if play had been abandoned - although it might have saved the home team from a defeat - it would have resulted in heavy sanctions from the ICC, including no international cricket at their premier venue for a year. That also may have affected the sold-out Pink-Day ODI, scheduled on February 10. In the end, Wanderers got away with just a poor rating and three demerit points, keeping the rest of the cricket for the season.

 

[fineleg]

Pitch tampering? Yet BCCI and India continue with ODI and T20 series? Return home to make a point to CSA.

[Deleted_User_1]

Africa is for Africans, South Africans!

[sandeep]

Not surprised at all. 

[Rightarmfast]

I said that the very day. Even they delaying the start of the match goes against ICC rules. 

[jalebi_bhai]

Credit to the Indian team for putting all this bs aside and still managing to comfortably win the game in the end. 

[express bowling]

I was apprehending that this may happen and wrote about it at the end of day 3.

 

In the end, it helped us though ... we were able to bowl them out for only 177 on a track which was not that vicious ... thereby enhancing the reputation of our pacers. 

[Deleted_User_1]

Mola Ram says,"Maaro maaro sooar ko, chamdi nocho, pee lo khoon"

 

I agree.

Edited February 4, 2018 by dandaroy

[Deleted_User_1]

2 hours ago, BeardedAladdin said:

Which ones?

 

White, black, indian or colored?

Whichever suar was involved in it, even the yellow ones!

[King Tendulkar]

It was obvious something had been done 

[sandeep]

7 hours ago, express bowling said:

I was apprehending that this may happen and wrote about it at the end of day 3.

 

In the end, it helped us though ... we were able to bowl them out for only 177 on a track which was not that vicious ... thereby enhancing the reputation of our pacers. 

This reminds me of the Indian tour to NZ in the early 2000s.  When Stephen Fleming was kiwi skipper.  NZ prepared some outrageously bowling friendly tracks, and Fleming talked a lot of trash about Indian batting before the series started.  The tracks were so bad, that India was able to take a 1st innings lead after scoring barely above 100.  And in one of the test matches, the curator watered the pitch between innings, and when the Indian team questioned it, they brushed it off with an apology and a misunderstanding.  When it was clearly done with an intent to make things a bit easier for the home team.   

 

 

[mancalledsting]

BBCI should definitely put in a formal complaint otherwise goras will tamper like crazy, their egos can’t stand to receive phainty from Indians in their own backyard 

[Cricketics]

OP is blaming Ghanians and Sudanese people too by the title. I just showed this thread to another colleague from Togo and he wants to gang up on Indians now. He is so offended by the title.

 

Man Surajmal they are coming after you. :)

 

[Vijy]

28 minutes ago, Cricketics said:

OP is blaming Ghanians and Sudanese people too by the title. I just showed this thread to another colleague from Togo and he wants to gang up on Indians now. He is so offended by the title.

 

Man Surajmal they are coming after you. :)

 

Yes, it should really be Republic of South Africans messed with...

[cowboysfan]

its safe to say the saffers are going to get a welcoming party when they visit india.