3rd Test - India vs England, Pink Test - D/N - *WTC Knockout Encounter*

[putrevus]

1 minute ago, SK_IH said:

Bairstow, Kohli, Rahane, Rohit, Gill, Stokes, Sibley etc all of them played some poor shots and some conveniently ascribe that to the pitch.

I honestly think Chennai's pitch was worse than this.

[NameGoesHere]

I wonder what Shastri's stirring dressing room speech would be like now?

 

"CM Gujarat himself promised to personally hand deliver a 20 YO Malt if we won.  Don't phuck this up panchos, this is a dry state....  

 

 

 

[Bigg Brother]

How is mahol in Padosi house?  ANY new comparing thread with new legend- Akshar? 

Edited February 25, 2021 by Bigg Brother

[SK_IH]

Imagine if England had lost the toss, the clamour would have reached another level

[Gollum]

Doubt curators/TM would have gone full retard without the sword of WTC qualification hanging over our necks. 

 

Here's hoping this is a one-off. Next series please can we go back to the 2016-19 type pitches.

[QuarantineTormentino]

3 minutes ago, Bigg Brother said:

How is mahol in Padosi house?  ANY new comparing thread with new legend- Akshar? 

Some of them are saying Haris Sohail and Shadab Khan would have become ATG all rounders from Asia if they played on “these type of pitches”

Edited February 25, 2021 by QuarantineTormentino

[Stan AF]

There's no point in playing more than 4-5 overs when session starts. Finish before 8 pm ideal.

[GeeGaw]

1 hour ago, GoldenSun said:

Err, didn't he like move to England as a kid?

Doesn’t matter.  He still maintains a residence in NZ so the state should seize all his assets.

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 minute ago, Gollum said:

Doubt curators/TM would have gone full retard without the sword of WTC qualification hanging over our necks. 

 

Here's hoping this is a one-off. Next series please can we go back to the 2016-19 type pitches.

Also defeat in 1st game n shami-umesh-jaddu missing played its part in the call. 

Im just getting a feeling that its coming to a point for kohlu when every captain becomes a bit more desperate for wins and start going extreme ways. Dhoni also wanted some turners towards end of his captaincy

[RajBan]

23 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

@Gollum it's not the case of India needing these wickets to win against England. After the first test, the captain & TM have decided for result oriented wickets which are challenging from day 1. Also, I think this is the inherent nature of this pitch. I heard even pitches for domestic T20s were ordinary. 

I see absolutely no wrong in these kinds of pitches. Trust me this pitch's quality or lack of has been excerbated by two ordinary batting lineups. Look at the shots of Bairstow, Rohit, Rahane, Stokes etc

The batting is atrocious but the pitch is not properly made as well. We can't deny one on pretext of highlighting the other. Does anyone truly believe that this pitch will allow cricket for 4 days , leave alone the 5th day.

 

A pitch where the bowling mark erodes the surface and create dunks on second session of day 1 definitely should raise serious questions..

[putrevus]

I did not watch Indian first innings batting today  but Root picking up five wickets means very bad batting by Indian batsmen.

Edited February 25, 2021 by putrevus

[Serpico]

6 minutes ago, Bigg Brother said:

How is mahol in Padosi house?  ANY new comparing thread with new legend- Akshar? 

there is a thread about Axar vs Nauman Ali, but I think its indian fan that created it

[R!TTER]

2 minutes ago, RajBan said:

Does anyone truly believe that this pitch will allow cricket for 4 days , leave alone the 5th day.

This was probably an extreme over-precaution in ensuring that the pitch didn't aid their seam/swing bowling - I have seen such p[itches in the [past but never where the groundmen had to delicately balance so many aspects of the game! In that sense his job was 4x more difficult than you image it'd been otherwise, just imagine a little bit of live grass on this deck & Eng ripping through our chumps. Kohli would've eaten that guy alive 

[putrevus]

Did Bhajji and Kumble play on as many turners as Ashwin played in his career?

[SK_IH]

3 minutes ago, RajBan said:

The batting is atrocious but the pitch is not properly made as well. We can't deny one on pretext of highlighting the other. Does anyone truly believe that this pitch will allow cricket for 4 days , leave alone the 5th day.

 

A pitch where the bowling mark erodes the surface and create dunks on second session of day 1 definitely should raise serious questions..

Let me put it this way the pitch ain't that bad as the scores reflect. I remember a pitch in Kanpur against SA in 2008 which was rated as poor (& it was under prepared), where batting in comparison to the **** show we saw in this match was of different level. This looks relatively easier than that turner but batsman had no resort here apart from sweeps or lunging forward.

[SK_IH]

Lovely shot from Gill to start the post dinner session

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Did Bhajji and Kumble play on as many turners as Ashwin played in his career?

Kumble yes, 90s was infamous for our turners. Almost all matches produced results.

 

Bhajji not so much, I can count maybe 4 genuine rank turners in his career, with Ashwin I'd say 6 and that number is likely to shoot up in his remaining career. But OTOH offies now can't bowl doosra. 

 

 

Edited February 25, 2021 by Gollum

[asterix]

 

[putrevus]

Sword of WTC finals was hanging on their heads. If they had already qualified for it. We might have seen lot better pitches.

[R!TTER]

1 minute ago, SK_IH said:

This looks relatively easier than that turner but batsman had no resort here apart from sweeps or lunging forward.

Yeah it wasn't that bad, the difference in red soil pitches like Mumbai (2004) or Nagpur (2015) is that the ball zips through & has a lot more pace on it. The turn is big, sometimes explosive & really quick. Black soil or really any other soil doesn't afford that kind of pace.