Agreed Viru and its pleasant to read it from you when your country has actually won the game. Cricket needs a fair competition between bat and ball. It all appeared as a joke if you ask me. But theres one reason that could justify these pitches, we see teams taking home advantage but thats generally related to seaming or spinning wickets and this one is pure batting wicket to support the home team advantage.

and yes Afridi, infact at the first glance I read his moniker as 'Shankar 5-0'. Later realized its Shikhar actually

Overall, credit has to be given to the Indians for producing world class batsmen consistently.Many thought that their rankings will plummet after retirements of Ganguly,Laxman,Tendulkar and Dravid but they do have infinite stock of world class batters.Such is the strength of their batting that inspite of having one of the poorest pace attacks in the world,their batsmen still win matches for them.

India are producing great batsmen, and that is great for cricket.
Hopefully in the next 2-3 years we can develop great pace bowlers as well.

Is the distance to the boundary always this short at this stadium, or they keep changing the boundary line depending on the format and opponent?

BCCI are a joke of an organisation let's be honest. They are the sole reason why India have never dominated test cricket with the team that they had in the early 00's. Profit and revenue is always seen to be more important to them than anything else.

With reference to Indian pace bowlers, the blame does not lie entirely with the Board.Pacers in Pakistan developed not because of any specific training imparted by its Board but because of bowlers' own effort.They knew to succeed on slow tracks in subcontinent, they have to master the art of reverse swing.On the other hand, Indian pacers do not have much pressure to develop themselves further because of money in IPL, etc.

comment by Pakistan till I die (U10140)
posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
With reference to Indian pace bowlers, the blame does not lie entirely with the Board.Pacers in Pakistan developed not because of any specific training imparted by its Board but because of bowlers' own effort.They knew to succeed on slow tracks in subcontinent, they have to master the art of reverse swing.On the other hand, Indian pacers do not have much pressure to develop themselves further because of money in IPL, etc.
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Does that mean your batsman are lazy?

In the past 10 years, the percentages of drawn test matches in each host country were:

UAE - 40%
NZ - 40%
Pak - 39%
WI - 37%
SL - 33%
Ind - 32%
Eng - 24%
BD - 20%
Aus - 16%
SA - 14%
Zim - 12%

SA is the other extreme in that test matches frequently finish in 3 or 4 days there, which is not ideal either.

comment by Robbie84 (U17946)
posted 13 hours, 31 minutes ago
In the past 10 years, the percentages of drawn test matches in each host country were:

UAE - 40%
NZ - 40%
Pak - 39%
WI - 37%
SL - 33%
Ind - 32%
Eng - 24%
BD - 20%
Aus - 16%
SA - 14%
Zim - 12%

SA is the other extreme in that test matches frequently finish in 3 or 4 days there, which is not ideal either.
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Interesting, with all the people on here complain v about the dead tracks in India, I would have imagined the most amount of drawn tests to have happened here.