The test match being played in UAE is the second test on this venue. While the second test is being played, two double hundreds have already been scored here and Sanga is on 161 at the moment. The way he is playing, he is well on course on scoring a 200 as well. If that happens, it will make it third.
My point behind mentioning all this is, just why on earth do they make such dead pitches. Does making quick bouncy wickets needs a lot of art that PCB curators aren't good at, is it about the cost that keeps them from making sporty wickets.
The whole world knows, the edge of Pakistan team is at bowling. This is a so-called home series and generally home sides prepare pitches to their advantage while in Pakistan it has always been opposite. This match still is most likely to yield a result but that again accounts for the fierce piece of fast bowling from Junaid Khan or otherwise it would have been yet another dead encounter.
My question is what really keeps PCB from making sporty pitches.
Dead Pitches but why?
posted on 21/10/11
Just as an example, the match in which Mark Taylor scored triple century in Pakistan (I do not exactly remember the city) we had both Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Zahid playing, the fastest of the bowlers the world has seen and they were totally ineffective because of the pitch.
posted on 21/10/11
Just as an example, the match in which Mark Taylor scored triple century in Pakistan (I do not exactly remember the city) we had both Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Zahid playing, the fastest of the bowlers the world has seen and they were totally ineffective because of the pitch.
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strange as akhtar bowled a really full length
posted on 21/10/11
"This exactly answers my question, to take it further as I mentioned above, does it cost a lot to prepare a green pitch, I mean in terms of care and maintenance stuff too, is it a very typical art?"
Yes, a lot of care and maintenance is required to generate and maintain a green pitch where as a flat pitch can be left alone for a year and couple hours of heavy rolling will make it playable again.
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"At old trafford they've just rotated their square and they couldn't play on it for a whole season, so creating a top pitch in one week is rubbish. Normally a square is lasting for many years not for 5 days."
English weather and Indian weather isn't the same, is it? On our soil, you can have a foot of water and it'll disapear in a few days. The beadrock is >1500 feet deep. The soil isn't saturated throughout the winter. It doesn't snow. There is no permafrost. The loo (hot wind) in the summer can kill mature trees. We harvest three crops a year.
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"Moreover if they prepare green pitches, Srilanka hardly has the bowlers who could capitalize the conditions."
This is exactely the reason why we don't see green pitches in the subcontinent. Anyone remember the Nagpur test vs Australia?
posted on 21/10/11
"resembles one, or acts like one over 5 consecutive days of play ?"
It looked like one, in terms of grass and it behaved like one in terms of swing and seam movement. One of the Delhi club sides played on it and was bowled out for 46 in 24 overs. The other club side (ACC cricket club, i think) was out for 44 in 18 over. The batsmen could not cope with the extra bounce, a few bouncers went well over the keepers head for boundries.
As far as the pitch staying the same for 5 days, I can't tell you this. We did not play a test on it!
Teams complained about the pitch having too much bounce and we rolled it for two days. The bounce and seam movement magically went away!
posted on 21/10/11
One of the Delhi club sides played on it and was bowled out for 46 in 24 overs. The other club side (ACC cricket club, i think) was out for 44 in 18 over. The batsmen could not cope with the extra bounce, a few bouncers went well over the keepers head for boundries.
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yeah. doesnt really sound like a test match wicket does it ?
posted on 21/10/11
Do you remember the test match that got abandoned in the west-indies?I think it was in Jamaica. West-indies versus England. That pitch was a minefield..
posted on 21/10/11
Singh_Saab, I was going to suggest that you apply for a head groundsman's job for a county but having read your latest posting, better stay with your day job.
posted on 21/10/11
None of the wickets were due to uneven bounce. A lot of short-of-length deliverers were gloved to short leg.
The pitch itself was not a bad pitch by any stretch of the imagination. It just had extra bounce and both teams stacked their 11 with medium pacers. The batsmen weren't good enough to score on it.
We proved our point that a fast bouncy pitch CAN be made in India.
posted on 22/10/11
Do you remember the test match that got abandoned in the west-indies?I think it was in Jamaica. West-indies versus England. That pitch was a minefield..
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that exactly what i was thiking of. alec stewart got a standing ovation for 7 didnt he ?
posted on 22/10/11
I think you maybe correct.. I remember one ball to Thorpe reared of a lenght.. Absolutly no way of playing it..