After SL whining about green tracks, now England whining about pitches not being flat tracks

[chewy]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27068787/people-were-waiting-us-fail-jonny-bairstow-lashes-england-critics

 

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After Joe Root's assessment that England's batsmen hadn't adapted to the surfaces they had encountered during the tournament, Bairstow admitted they had been caught off guard by the state of World Cup pitches, which haven't yielded the big totals many were expecting based on recent seasons.

"None of the pitches throughout the whole tournament have been as true as they have been previously - whether that Pakistan series or last summer," Bairstow said. "Whether that's dictated by the weather, the ICC or whatever you want to put that down too - I have no idea. But the scores have not been as high as they have been over the last two years in England. Look at the ODI results over the last two years.

"The pitches that we've been playing on the last two years are surely the pitches we would be playing on in a World Cup. So I don't know why they've changed. That wasn't a typical Oval wicket we played South Africa on in the opening game. It wasn't a typical Trent Bridge wicket we played Pakistan on. It wasn't a typical Lord's wicket that we played the other day.

"Yes the overheads were different. But they're not the typical wickets we've been playing on over two-and-a-bit years. That's just factual... but I'm not making excuses, we've not played well enough to beat sides when we should have done."

Bairstow acknowledged that England had "messed a couple of games up" but they were acutely aware of what was needed at Edgbaston on Sunday against a well-supported India, who have now won five of their six matches with their clash against New Zealand washed out.

 

I find there is too much unnecessary hoop la around condition of pitch in every match, commentators discussing 24/7 during match.

just play each game on its merit, stop making excuses

 

when pitch is totally unplayable, then fine, whine and complain. 

[Vijy]

two of the biggest whingers and whiners around. they should have a whine-off contest. SL sorely missing the services of the likes of Lady Jaya.

[Stuge]

They should have asked ECB  to shift Ass(Ashes ) for some other time and play WC a bit later .Chances are most pitches will have bite now  .. Curators can't do magic and make them flat tracks .

Edited June 27, 2019 by Stuge

[Ankit_sharma03]

If they werent expecting pitches to wear down in 2nd half specially with summers coming.....they indeed deserve to be in this position. 

Games are played used pitches what do u expect and it becoming hot. In 2017 ct also pakistan exposed these hacks on their own surfaces when it started to slow down