What looked formidabble now looks so shaky

Aussies are guranteed to produce bouncy green tracks. In the past they use to produce flat tracks as they had great bowlers who could ball on any track but now they are going the England and SA route so it will be tough for the Indian batsman.

no kash dont be mistaken. Indian batsman have performed better in bouncy and green wickets than oppositions most of the time. SA was a gd example, and they tended to collapse more than india did. I doubt it whether australia will make green wickets seeing how badly aussies have been collapsing these days. atleast not for the first test, cause they dont know what skill level indian bowlers have.

the england route?

i take issue with that. in England we don't produce green tracks, that is just what, generally, naturally occurs as a result of the climate, the two exceptions being taunton and the oval (to do with the soil i expect).

Naturally, batting tracks in england will have variable bounce, and a lot of lateral movement. the bounce will also not generally be all that high, playing village cricket i am yet to see an effective bouncer.

the fact is that groundsmen in England have to work very hard to make pitches flat, as that is not the natural condition. a green track represents what a truly english track is like, and it is not because the groundsmen are specifically trying to make them so.

The tracks in England of late have been quite dry with a bit of grass on them.. Its been the quality of the bowling that as that as helped England..No wickets in the world start of damp these days.. Damp in the sense of the ball moving up and down and side ways ,then leaving red dents in the wicket where the ball as pitched..As Jezzer as typed its the climate in England that makes the ball swing.. It doesnt seem much though on the test wicket produced...

The problem with Indian seamer being so poor as many reasons.. Mainly the wickets in India are produced slow flat and turners.. The Seamers have no chance to show of their quality. They just lumber up an 125 mph and bowl on a lenght that hopefully will prevent the batsmen scoring. The problems arise for the seam bowlers is when they faced with a wicket that does something. They are not used to bowling the lenght that takes the edge.. as in Indian not many batsmen are caught in the slips due to the pace of the pitches..

it is true at test level in england no wicket starts off damp theses days, and wickets generally give less help to the bowlers tah they used to. i would suggest that this is due to the advance in groundskeeping technology.

this does not change the fact that if a pitch is prepared naturally (by that i meant you just cut the grass short and roll it) it will be grassy, green and often a tad damp. it is only through technology and the hard work of groundmen that we see pitches any other way.

@knowitall or to who ever concrned about indian bowlers

we toured england in 2001, 2007 and have done very well infact out bowled england in 2007 , just because we didnot perform well in 2011 for what ever reasons , dont u guyz stereo type!
if you see stats in india over past 3 years zaheer and ishant have taken more wickets than spinners!

lets analyse our performance in australia
2003 1-1 , india with bwlers like agarkar,pathan stood up to mighty australians , we are the only team to beat australia in australia from 2000-2007 and come home not lsoing a series , dont u mention meaning less 5th ashes test in 2002

our bowlers are not great but they work hard as a group

@viru

zak,ishant,umesh looks a good line up but it will not last all the four tests,

mithun must have shown some good promise to keep him in the squad

varun aaron and praveen were unfortunate to get injured, ashok dinda should do well as he is doing well in domestic cricket

Why keep harking back to the past? this is the present and the Indian bowling looks like pusies