Australia killing test cricket with their flat pitches.

[King Tendulkar]

Last test bore draw. This test aussies pile on 520 declared. Now Gayle scores 102 in only 72 balls. What kind of tracks are these. Aussies killing tests cricket with these pancake tracks were even pathetic windies can pile on the runs. Thank god for India were SL tests produced 2 wins out of 3 matches. And that was with both teams having top batting line ups. While here even fragile windies can pile on the runs on these flattest of flat tracks that the aussies produce. Aussies need to produce tracks with more turn like in India instead of these up and down tracks

[flamy]

The Aussies are spoiled brats living in the glory of yesteryears.

[Texy]

spoiled brat those OZs

[champ]

highway on my plate ..

[kabira]

Perth is the flatest wicket on this earth. and there are stats to prove it. Bossbhai you there?? what are the stats now

[Laaloo]

[ViruRulez]

I wonder whether Pwnting will again whine about the pitches in his own country after he whined about the pitches here.

[Malcolm Merlyn]

adelaide and perth have been very flat.........pwnting afraid of Kemar Roach and company?

[sangrock]

im glad someone brought that up - i though i was paranoid!

[EnterTheVoid]

Dsr taking needless potshots at Australia again. Seems to be his favorite hobby when he is bored Remember India's win in Perth in the Australian leg of the Border - Gavaskar trophy, the one where Ponting accused the curator of intentionally producing a flat batsman friendly pitch instead of the fast and bouncy pitch one would normally associate with the WACA such that the match would last longer and get maximum television audience ? The rot started much earlier, under our very own noses no ? Care to bump that thread or did you take a rest from your usual Australia, oh whoops, pardon me, ... kangaroo, convict etc bashing ?

[cowboysfan]

can anybody blame the aussies for creating a patta wicket after the hiding they received in their last 2 test matches here at perth?

[The Dark Horse]

They didnt want to lose again at Perth:hehe:

[Anakin]

To keep pwnting alive

[Dinx - the Jinx]

Dsr taking needless potshots at Australia again. Seems to be his favorite hobby when he is bored Remember India's win in Perth in the Australian leg of the Border - Gavaskar trophy, the one where Ponting accused the curator of intentionally producing a flat batsman friendly pitch instead of the fast and bouncy pitch one would normally associate with the WACA such that the match would last longer and get maximum television audience ? The rot started much earlier, under our very own noses no ? Care to bump that thread or did you take a rest from your usual Australia, oh whoops, pardon me, ... kangaroo, convict etc bashing ?

So, ponting can criticise the curator for not producing a pace friendly pitch.. and if we produce a spin friendly track in mumbai or kanpur and go on to win the match, it will be called sub standard pitch.. WTF? :dontknow:

[retterimp]

lol good thread..lets give it back to the aussies. didnt ponting say drawn indian test matches a worrying sign or something? well mr. ponting, what do you have to say abt australian tracks now?

[flamy]

Dsr taking needless potshots at Australia again. Seems to be his favorite hobby when he is bored Remember India's win in Perth in the Australian leg of the Border - Gavaskar trophy, the one where Ponting accused the curator of intentionally producing a flat batsman friendly pitch instead of the fast and bouncy pitch one would normally associate with the WACA such that the match would last longer and get maximum television audience ? The rot started much earlier, under our very own noses no ? Care to bump that thread or did you take a rest from your usual Australia, oh whoops, pardon me, ... kangaroo, convict etc bashing ?

So' date=' ponting can criticise the curator for not producing a pace friendly pitch.. and if we produce a spin friendly track in mumbai or kanpur and go on to win the match, it will be called sub standard pitch.. WTF? :dontknow:[/quote'] pwned saala :bangbang:

[EnterTheVoid]

So' date=' ponting can criticise the curator for not producing a pace friendly pitch.. and if we produce a spin friendly track in mumbai or kanpur and go on to win the match, it will be called sub standard pitch.. WTF? :dontknow:[/quote'] Is there or is there not a problem with the quality of test pitches produced in India ? Sort those out first before taking the moral high ground and preaching to someone else about what they should / shouldn't be doing

[Karan114]

Sort those out first before taking the moral high ground and preaching to someone else about what they should / shouldn't be doing

WTF are you on about? It is Pwnting who whines about Indian pitches immediately after India crushes Lanka in consecutive Tests. Who the hell asked that idiot to comment on Indian pitches? Ever heard Dhoni say how damn flat some of the Aussie pitches are? And yet you go on with your rubbish about Indians taking the moral high ground? Think about what you are saying instead of rushing to the defense of your beloved Aussie whingers as is your custom.

[EnterTheVoid]

WTF are you on about? It is Pwnting who whines about Indian pitches immediately after India crushes Lanka in consecutive Tests. Who the hell asked that idiot to comment on Indian pitches? Ever heard Dhoni say how damn flat some of the Aussie pitches are? And yet you go on with your rubbish about Indians taking the moral high ground? Think about what you are saying instead of rushing to the defense of your beloved Aussie whingers as is your custom.

Ponting raised an objection about the quality of Indian pitches, which btw, have been raised before - To each his own no ? Whats the problem in voicing his opinion; Putting aside who said what, I want this question answered: Is there or is there not a problem with Indian test pitches ************ Lifeless pitches are bringing slow death to Test cricket in India There are some gluttons for punishment out there. In a recent poll, 7 per cent of India supporters said that Test cricket was their game of choice. Watching the tedious fare on offer between India and Sri Lanka this month, the surprise is not that there are so few, but that there are any at all. Frankly, root canal treatment would be more fun. They are at it again in Kanpur this week: hundreds on the first day for Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir as India plundered a mountain (233) for the first wicket and a molehill (137) for the second, Rahul Dravid using the conditions to keep Father Time at bay. Why even consider retiring with such heaven-sent batting conditions to gorge on? All this came on the back of a monstrously dull affair in Ahmedabad, where bowlers lay down to be slaughtered at the altar of batsmanship. Almost 1,600 runs were scored there for only 21 wickets taken and seven individual hundreds were notched while two of the top-ranked bowlers in the world, Harbhajan Singh and Muttiah Muralitharan, were rendered impotent by batsmen unwilling to spurn such an opportunity to feather their own statistics — and, more importantly, by an awful pitch. After the match the focus was on statistics — Sachin Tendulkar’s 43rd Test hundred, for example, during which he passed the small matter of 30,000 runs in international cricket. The usual press releases from the ICC had such a slant, too: with his sixth career double century, Mahela Jayawardena, it said, had overtaken his compatriot, Kumar Sangakkara, to take the No 1 spot in the world rankings. What the ICC’s press release should have said, of course, was that the umpires and the match referee had marked the Ahmedabad pitch down as unacceptably poor and that the groundsman’s penalty would be a period without international cricket. The ICC has recognised that the definition of a poor pitch has had to change. For decades, particularly during eras when the balance between bat and ball was more finely tuned, a poor pitch would be regarded as one that gave an undue advantage to the bowler. Something, perhaps, that started too green, too damp or too dry so that it crumbled too quickly. Indeed, it was the ECB that was forced to introduce guidelines to make pitches more batsmen-friendly after a few years in the late 1980s when counties took home advantage to extremes. But things have swung too far the other way. The balance between bat and ball — the principal thing that keeps cricket entertaining — has become horribly skewed, so that there is an urgent need to make bland pitches a thing of the past. The ICC recognised this recently — something that the MCC world cricket committee endorsed keenly — when it said that pitches that offered negligible bounce, carry, seam movement or turn should be marked poor. It was as if the Ahmedabad pitch was prepared as a deliberate test case. Enervating Test cricket is nothing new in India. In 1981-82 they played England in one of the dullest series of all time. India sat on their 1-0 lead, piled up huge scores on featherbed pitches and reduced over-rates to about ten an hour. England retaliated with occasionally fewer, and so with neither side attempting to win, the next five games petered out into blood-sapping draws. Phil Edmonds reckoned that the subsequent desertion of some players to South Africa was not so much because of the money but because they were “bored to the soul with Test cricket after that tour”. Amazingly, 394,000 people — a record at the time — watched the six-match series, although, presciently, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack warned the Indian board of the need to “put some ginger in their pitches before crowds start losing interest”. Crowds flocked to those bore draws because there were few alternatives, in life or sport. That is not the case now. India’s emergence as an economic superpower has transformed daily options in parts of the sub-continent and Test cricket has its own challenges from within. So there were great swaths of empty seats in Ahmedabad and Kanpur, as there are for Test cricket the world over, except in England, Australia and only occasionally elsewhere. Of course, you wouldn’t have to be such a cynic to wonder whether it is in Indian cricket’s interests to strangle whatever remaining relevance there is in the Test game. They now have more lucrative fish to fry. But it doesn’t matter whether it is Test or Twenty20 cricket, if bowlers continue to be treated as second-class citizens, interest will wane. The fall of a wicket is the most dramatic moment in cricket, something the game is all too quickly forgetting. Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/mike_atherton/article6932232.ece *********** One of many such articles. You can find many from India's commentators voicing similiar concerns without too much difficulty.

[zubinpepsi]

Is there or is there not a problem with the quality of test pitches produced in India ? Sort those out first before taking the moral high ground and preaching to someone else about what they should / shouldn't be doing

when the pitches in ozz are as flat as sub-con.. he doesnt have tht fking moral high ground to whine about the pitches in ozz... look whos talking abt moral high ground.. :giggle: