India-SriLanka-NewZealand Tri Series Aug 2010

[Zap_Brannigan]

Morally, they should have but it was quite visible that the players were getting wounded and bruised on the spot in front of everyone. In such a case, it was sensible to call it off. The game was called off after Dhoni and the umpires agreed to it. It was an unanimous decision following Sangakkara's request.

What do you think happened during the practise? Karthik got injured due to the uneven bounce. Obviously no team would be happy with either this pitch or the one in kanpur.

[TheWall]

dumb curator

[saneindian]

Well both teams played on the same pitch hence the same uneven and "badly" bouncy pitch right? In that case' date=' I would expect two well trained and rated teams to perform and put up a good competition. Why aren't the other team players complaining? Are the people examining the game very closely blind enough to not notice the "huge" issue of uneven bounce? [b']Why is that only Dhoni is complaining? and that too right after a loss? There is almost always some sort an excuse after every loss. I will never be able to compare ODIs and Tests playing conditions on one page! It's just impossible while talking sense. Well, then the players should opt to play lesser game or request BCCI to put up with a lighter schedule. You can't go around calling everything unfair and still want to make 10x more money than the other teams. by "ground", I meant the location "dambula". There was this saying after India's loss that "It's impossible or w/e to chase under lights while batting second at dambula". I don't agree with this sentence as it's lame.

Dude did Dhoni or the Indian team management complain about the match pitch? NO hHe's saying the practice wickets were not upto the standards. Some news channels tried to go to the practice wickets, Lankan officials did not allow them to do so and then later they were remvoing the thick blade of grass from those under prepared wickets which could have injured the players in practice. Obviously something must have been wrong with the pitch. And in case you did not know, visiting teams do have a choice of asking for a specific type of practice pitch of they desire to.

[Lord]

I am talking about the general issue which everyone brings up right after India loses a game. There should be no discussion about the pitch at all and the curators are not supposed to have any disclosure with the media in the first place. We should be talking about our tactics on different pitches and different situations. Not only India but all top 8 teams should just stop talking bullshit and stop blaming external characteristics of the game. Different pitch is a different challenge and it's part of Cricket. You just can not make every pitch the same and order soil from OZ or Eng. you can't change the weather or the atmosphere in every country to suit your playing conditions. Adaption is part of the game and therefore, lets just stop blaming the curators and the pitches including the grounds and the bias of D/N matches. I am not even talking about nor interested in who attacked who and who criticized who. I am not even talking about winning and losing. Pitches in India aren't made of gold either. Don't you forget the recent pitch in Punjab where SL had to abandon the game due to uneven and surprise bounce and bumps in the pitch.

that was in Kotla,Delhi.Punjab ko kyu badnaam kar rahe ho:winky:

[Shine]

wtf is up with sri lanka... fracked up pitches' date=' fracked up conditions, fracked up all around...[/quote'] better than bloody SWINE FLU in India...:giggle:

[HyroProto]

wtf is up with sri lanka... fracked up pitches' date=' fracked up conditions, fracked up all around...[/quote'] LOL..talk about whining... its only fracked up for Indians atm it seems.. u bat second & get all out for 88 then its the conditions & the pitch...u let NZ scorre 250+ from 3 down for 30+ & its the falut of who ? SL bat under lights & win easily & i ddidnt se NZ complaining or Sanga... if u bat like idiots & get out its your own damn fault.. so stop making excuses & play in what ever conditions & what ever pitchs offered to u like the rest of the world... u think that u r special somehow & pitches & conditions have to be specially catered to u in where ever the hell u go to play cricket ? lets see what u say..if u win this match today after batting second ? dont think it'll be the same story then... Also it seems that any tournament that u dont do well is meaningless... OK..lets assume that only the world cup is important to u guys..what will happen if u exit the world cup the same way u did the last 2 times ? what then ? u ***ed up the world cup as ususal ..then what ? wait until the next world cup saying all the other tournaments are meaningless as well ? :winky: U guys are fastly becoming the most arrogant & abusive fans + the most over hyped team in world cricket...Congrats for Replacing the Australian fans & the team

[ZodiaC]

That's not the point' date=' no one is denying we batted badly in the first ODI. The point is this moron curator's repeated attacks on our team. As saneindian says, the last time he trashed our team we responded by beating his country in the third Test and hopefully we can do something similar tomorrow.[/quote'] Agree. I can accept him defending the pitch, but why the feck is this moron citing our failure out of context? What a retard.

[saneindian]

LOL..talk about whining... its only fracked up for Indians atm it seems.. u bat second & get all out for 88 then its the conditions & the pitch...u let NZ scorre 250+ from 3 down for 30+ & its the falut of who ? SL bat under lights & win easily & i ddidnt se NZ complaining or Sanga... if u bat like idiots & get out its your own damn fault.. so stop making excuses & play in what ever conditions & what ever pitchs offered to u like the rest of the world... u think that u r special somehow & pitches & conditions have to be specially catered to u in where ever the hell u go to play cricket ? lets see what u say..if u win this match today after batting second ? dont think it'll be the same story then... Also it seems that any tournament that u dont do well is meaningless... OK..lets assume that only the world cup is important to u guys..what will happen if u exit the world cup the same way u did the last 2 times ? what then ? u ***ed up the world cup as ususal ..then what ? wait until the next world cup saying all the other tournaments are meaningless as well ? :winky: U guys are fastly becoming the most arrogant & abusive fans + the most over hyped team in world cricket...Congrats for Replacing the Australian fans & the team

Don't worry. We have won all the ODI series we have played in Lanka under Dhoni, this one will be no different.

[HyroProto]

That's not the point' date=' no one is denying we batted badly in the first ODI. The point is this moron curator's repeated attacks on our team. As saneindian says, the last time he trashed our team we responded by beating his country in the third Test and hopefully we can do something similar tomorrow.[/quote'] he wont have to attack yur team if your team doesnt whine saying that its the fault of the pitch, its the fault of the lights, its the fault of the conditions & now its the fault of the practice pitches (everything else but them) :giggle: If the other 2 teams can win matches & not u..its your teams fault & not any other...yeah u got a bad deal with the bounce in the first game..but didnt NZ had the same pitch ? its just that u couldn't handle the bounce, went fishing for the balls & got bowled out for 88 stop whining & play like the other 2 teams..

[Lord]

he wont have to attack yur team if your team doesnt whine saying that its the fault of the pitch, its the fault of the lights, its the fault of the conditions & now its the fault of the practice pitches (everything else but them) :giggle: If the other 2 teams can win matches & not u..its your teams fault & not any other...yeah u got a bad deal with the bounce in the first game..but didnt NZ had the same pitch ? its just that u couldn't handle the bounce, went fishing for the balls & got bowled out for 88 stop whining & play like the other 2 teams..

huh,we won the Asia Cup on same pitches:finger:

[Lord]

[Zap_Brannigan]

he wont have to attack yur team if your team doesnt whine saying that its the fault of the pitch, its the fault of the lights, its the fault of the conditions & now its the fault of the practice pitches (everything else but them) :giggle: If the other 2 teams can win matches & not u..its your teams fault & not any other...yeah u got a bad deal with the bounce in the first game..but didnt NZ had the same pitch ? its just that u couldn't handle the bounce, went fishing for the balls & got bowled out for 88 stop whining & play like the other 2 teams..

Sanga the whinga said the goddamned same thing during asia cup. Pretty much everyone said the same in asia cup.

[HyroProto]

huh' date='we won the Asia Cup on same pitches:finger:[/quote'] exactly my point... stop *****ing & just play & win..if u cant win a particular game..well hard luck..**** happens because u cant win all... SL showed that u can win easily batting second... so now its up to u to win

[Lord]

^ dude,nobody complaining about match wiclets,its the practise wickets,do u understand the difference? n no it isnt being cited as a reason for our defeat to NZ

[HyroProto]

Sanga the whinga said the goddamned same thing during asia cup. Pretty much everyone said the same in asia cup.

true..but this pitch is not as bad as the aisa cup ones..u can bat second & win and Dhoni has now become the official whiner :--D

[Zap_Brannigan]

true..but this pitch is not as bad as the aisa cup ones..u can bat second & win and Dhoni has now become the official whiner :--D

Yeah really? We did bat second and win in the asia cup. Do you understand unfair advantage? You can win batting second, but its just not fair because the team needs to play much better than the other team to win.

[jf1gp_1]

U guys are fastly becoming the most arrogant & abusive fans + the most over hyped team in world cricket...Congrats for Replacing the Australian fans & the team

Arrogant fans maybe over hyped team ?? we are No 1 test side No 2 ODI side ; look beyond that 88 AO we beat you to win Asia cup in SL; so please define over hyped

[Sachinism]

As someone know plays for a proper cricket team, we see loads of poorly kept pitches on our travels and you can see just what a difference it makes, with spinners getting stupid amounts of spin and pace bowlers getting bounce when they hit the cracks, these kinds of pitch then put victory down to luck and not good bowling and batting. It seems like the Lankans are trying to hinder out batting as this is out strength, but i dont think it will work as no UV will make us stronger and if we win the toss it should be game over. I dont see why the games dont start earlier so floodlights isnt a problem? Personally i think the bcci have been too friendly towards sri lanka for far too long, i remember reading somewhere that alot of their income comes from india as they play us alot. I think we need to let them play with teams on their level i.e. Bangladesh/Kenya.

Absolutely, when luck decides who wins rather than skills its really frustrating, especially after toil out there all day and actually do quite well but have no luck BCCI is filling SLCs coffers for their vote in ICC matters

[Tendulkar_Bhai]

LOL..talk about whining... its only fracked up for Indians atm it seems.. u bat second & get all out for 88 then its the conditions & the pitch...u let NZ scorre 250+ from 3 down for 30+ & its the falut of who ? SL bat under lights & win easily & i ddidnt se NZ complaining or Sanga... if u bat like idiots & get out its your own damn fault.. so stop making excuses & play in what ever conditions & what ever pitchs offered to u like the rest of the world... u think that u r special somehow & pitches & conditions have to be specially catered to u in where ever the hell u go to play cricket ? lets see what u say..if u win this match today after batting second ? dont think it'll be the same story then... Also it seems that any tournament that u dont do well is meaningless... OK..lets assume that only the world cup is important to u guys..what will happen if u exit the world cup the same way u did the last 2 times ? what then ? u ***ed up the world cup as ususal ..then what ? wait until the next world cup saying all the other tournaments are meaningless as well ? :winky: U guys are fastly becoming the most arrogant & abusive fans + the most over hyped team in world cricket...Congrats for Replacing the Australian fans & the team

I cant even be bothered to read all that, but what are you doing on this forum if you dont like the indain team, dont you sri lankans have a forum of your own? Ultimately the bcci almost entirely funds your cricket board so if it wasnt for us you wouldnt even be playing cricket..and look 2 wickets down, why not worry about your own situation in this match? I guess the pitch is ok so you should be fine.:winky:

[vamos_rafa]

I think this was some kind of a conspriancy so that we remain under prepared.... and the SL people tend to ban games... they don't have the balls to play cricket on green tracks in india... I find this curator really intersting..... he can say anything to anyone and gets away with it... i mean they don;t give a proper practice wicket and hits back on the touring side.... great clown i must say