Test Cricket is Best Cricket

[MechEng]

9 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

I think that also had to do with pitches, outfields and bats. Since 2002, there has been a consistent trend to make pitches flatter and faster in an effort to develop more strokemakers and to develop genuine quicks who hit the deck hard. No more slow, seaming pitches in NZ,ENG or greenish ones in SA etc. I'd argue that these measures improved the game. 

 

 

I do think bats need to be regulated further. These bat edges are ridiculous. But the single most damaging development was the introduction of 2 new balls in cricket. These balls stay harder and don't swing much even upfront. The result being the batsmen can hit through the line until the very end. Earlier as the ball got softer it was harder to score and reverse and spin came into play as well. 

Interesting observation about the lack of slowness of the cricket pitches. It is one of the reasons why dibbly dobbly medium pacers have disappeared from the game. If you watch Sachin's Sharjah innings, you'll see how slow the pitches used to be there that it was very difficult to hit a six by getting the bat under the ball, and even the outfield was too slow. Sachin could hit 5 sixes in that 143 because he used that super heavy MRF bat.

When Jayasuria made 189 against us in 2000 by that time the pitch was a lot more faster and assisting fast bowlers relatively more compared to 1998, so Jayasuria didn't need to hit the ball very hard just timed his sixes.

The last time I saw a super slow pitch in ODIs was that Compaq Cup final in Sri Lanka in 2010, where even perfectly timed shots did not reach the boundaries often.

 

Couldn't agree more with the 2 new ball rule, reverse swing is non existent, you won't see those special death overs reverse swing spells like Zak against England in 2011 World Cup anymore.

Though it has given the license to Rohit Sharma to hit 3 double centuries and few more to come!

[cowboysfan]

Test cricket is by far the best sport in the world,no other game tests a players ability like Test cricket and gives chances for redemption in the same game.

[Nikhil_cric]

On 2/18/2019 at 7:39 PM, MechEng said:

Interesting observation about the lack of slowness of the cricket pitches. It is one of the reasons why dibbly dobbly medium pacers have disappeared from the game. If you watch Sachin's Sharjah innings, you'll see how slow the pitches used to be there that it was very difficult to hit a six by getting the bat under the ball, and even the outfield was too slow. Sachin could hit 5 sixes in that 143 because he used that super heavy MRF bat.

When Jayasuria made 189 against us in 2000 by that time the pitch was a lot more faster and assisting fast bowlers relatively more compared to 1998, so Jayasuria didn't need to hit the ball very hard just timed his sixes.

The last time I saw a super slow pitch in ODIs was that Compaq Cup final in Sri Lanka in 2010, where even perfectly timed shots did not reach the boundaries often.

 

Couldn't agree more with the 2 new ball rule, reverse swing is non existent, you won't see those special death overs reverse swing spells like Zak against England in 2011 World Cup anymore.

Though it has given the license to Rohit Sharma to hit 3 double centuries and few more to come!

Yep, the ODI game changed a lot in the 1999-03 period. In the 99 world cup, every team except Pakistan had a dibbly dobbler or two - Larsen, ealham,robin Singh, Keith arthurton,Tom Moody, Steve Waugh, Adam Dale, hansie etc. By 2002, even England and NZ started producing faster pitches and outfields as evidenced by the NatWest final 2002. And they also ditched mark ealham , Angus fraser type trundlers and by the world cup next year they had caddick, Flintoff and a young Jimmy all clocking 140's. 

 

Slow pitches and outfields  are rarely found in India/Australia/England/NZ/SA nowadays . Until recently SL bad slow pitches and outfields but last season that was not the case. West Indies and UAE pitches are quite slow and low too. 

[MechEng]

18 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Yep, the ODI game changed a lot in the 1999-03 period. In the 99 world cup, every team except Pakistan had a dibbly dobbler or two - Larsen, ealham,robin Singh, Keith arthurton,Tom Moody, Steve Waugh, Adam Dale, hansie etc. By 2002, even England and NZ started producing faster pitches and outfields as evidenced by the NatWest final 2002. And they also ditched mark ealham , Angus fraser type trundlers and by the world cup next year they had caddick, Flintoff and a young Jimmy all clocking 140's. 

 

Slow pitches and outfields  are rarely found in India/Australia/England/NZ/SA nowadays . Until recently SL bad slow pitches and outfields but last season that was not the case. West Indies and UAE pitches are quite slow and low too. 

Medium pace bowling is an underrated art. Dwayne Bravo and Collymore type bowlers on slow wickets can be difficult to play.

[Gollum]

That time of the year, feeling so nervous/excited. First match since the WC SF where stakes are so high. Team India's legacy on the line and things can go awry in the first 30 minutes. 

[putrevus]

Test cricket trumps over everything if played against two equal sides on a sporting wicket.

[Khota]

If you have to state that it is the best than you have already lost it. Insecurity of Test folks is bubbling to the top.

[cric_fan]

If you have to state that it is the best than you have already lost it. Insecurity of Test folks is bubbling to the top.

Test cricket is the best

[Khota]

4 hours ago, cric_fan said:

 

Test cricket is the best

 

Lost it.

 

Repeat after me "earth is flat." Bugs Bunny

[Deleted_User_1]

Nah tontee-tontee is where all the fun is.

[Laaloo]

East or West

 

Test Cricket is the best 

[Vilander]

On 2/16/2019 at 12:49 PM, velu said:

 

naan rajni dialogue nu ninachutu irunthaen  

Aaakkk thh..

[Gollum]

Koi shaq?

 

This one test match had more ebbs/flows, drama, suspense, tragedy, comedy etc. than a season of JAMODI cricket. 

 

No Indian was playing yet we had so much fun, range of emotions. Can never happen in franchise BS.

Edited August 8, 2020 by Gollum

[Gollum]

 

As excited about tomorrow's match as before the WC SF. 

[Gollum]

What a high this is. 

[cric_fan]

Test cricket is the best

Lost it.
 
Repeat after me "earth is flat." Bugs Bunny

Ab bholo bhai

[Khota]

2 hours ago, cric_fan said:

 

 

 

Ab bholo bhai

 

 

 

Don't have 5 days of my life to waste. I have done fair share of that.

[Gollum]

Once again, what a match. 

 

Last session of D5>>>>>>entire 2020 IPL season

Pant-Puji partnership too so awesome. 

[express bowling]

The gritty fights ... the ups and downs ... the extra endurance needed  ... the hostile bouncers bowled ... the hostile bouncers received ... the body blows and fighting through injuries ... the show of character.

 

Test cricket is a level above most sports. 

 

A good test match is like a mixture of a good novel and a gritty war.

 

 

 

 

[Jimmy Cliff]