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Kotla ka Ghosla : The pitch-farce


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my predictions-we are going to see flat flat wickets in the world cup,BCCI is not going to take a risk in preparing sporting wickets.This means our chances of winning the world cup are very low.

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my predictions-we are going to see flat flat wickets in the world cup' date='BCCI is not going to take a risk in preparing sporting wickets.This means our chances of winning the world cup are very low.[/quote'] ICC hires their own curators for their events.
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You guys forgot the 06 champions trophy??? We had some great 90 style odi games. One of the games at Mohali - Saf vs Pak, where pak were bundlred for 80 odd.
Yeh but its Pak and they're prone to collapses
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Yeh but its Pak and they're prone to collapses
actually lot of games were great. Jerome Taylor took hattrick to win it for the Windies against Aus etc. The tournament was fun barring India's earlyl exit
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wow, that really was a big farce. I mean how hard is it for BCCI to monitor pitches with all the money they generate? Heard crowd was so annoyed that they tried to break down the stadium.

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A sad denouement of this fiasco will be that a flat track where the ball will not rise above the toes will be the gold standard set by the BCCI. I was actually loving the bouncy conditions yesterday until the uneven bounce began to show. Let's just have a rank turner or a bouncy spongy track. Enough of batsmen pampering. Let's have some broken bones already.

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Incidentally, Sunil Gavaskar didn't seem too pleased with what he saw during his pitch report. He described the uneven sprinkling of grass on the pitch as a "hair transplant" with bald patches.
:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Times Now has rightly suggested that The Delhi board is SUPER CORRUPT and a bunch of sh*t.
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Do you think the Indian team would have complained & gone off the pitch like SL? This is what Mahela Jayawardena said about the Kotla wicket- http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/441433.html There is no denying that the wicket was ridiculous but a stark contrast lies in the way teams respond. Sri Lanka immediately made its stance clear in no uncertain terms and played a pro-active role in ensuring that the match is stalled. If India were touring another country, we would have chosen to give respect to the curator, the local board, the opposing team and the fans by carrying on despite the dangerous nature of the pitch. Just another way to look at the whole thing. What if India were in Sri Lanka's shoes? Would we have gone of the field in protest? I don't think we would. What do you think?

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no; i think the present indian team too would have complained, IF the pitch was as dangerous and the batsmen received blows ..............

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Yes, they were more worried about players getting hurt than wickets fallen. It was a very dangerous pitch and for your information, the Indian players also refused to play on the pitch after the match was stopped

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Kotla pitch had very unreal bounce, it was a two paced track with ball dying as low as 6 inches off the turf and the odd ball flying off and taking off the pitch off a length at serious pace.It would have been nasty to play in that wicket, i doubt whether they would ve even played on that turf even thought they were 150-0 in 15 overs and the series was levelled at 2-2.IMO that pitch was an unbelievable track not fit to be played on.You cant play a game at the expense of a cricketers career(Batsman's injury can be nasty). So 100% YES India wou;ld have done the same.

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India is traditionally a country, which gives a lot of respect to anyone and everyone. We have a few aggressive young guns in our team but we are still the same sweet people, I believe

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