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who made this son of a pitch?

by bored cricket crazy indians


1200 runs and 12 wickets later, we’re stuck with a bitch of a test match...

this is not the first time and most certainly not going to be the last time…

test cricket itself is being challenged like never before by the emergence of T20 and the last thing we want are dead as dodo pitches which are only going to hasten the beginning on an end we all fear…whatever purists say about test cricket’s health sighting results and the thrilling draws we had recently… it would be like ignoring the threat knowingly…

i would go on to say that more than the debacle of Antigua these pitches will kill test cricket first…

i am yet to see an advertisement of a company ridiculing its own product…then why isn’t anything done about this farce (sorry sam for using your takiyakalam) being organised in the name of test cricket…

when bowlers look the other way whenever captain wants to bowl them…when batsmen lick their lips in anticipation of adding some ‘weight’ to their stats…when the only time players involved in the game feel happy (or relieved) when two captains agree to end it…when two teams have the best talent of world cricket, with the best technicians assembled - are compelled to air the dullest test cricket…the future of which is already being debated…

then you know something is going horribly wrong...

isn’t it time we look into some ‘quality control’ of pitches too…the most important factor in any form of the game, specially test cricket…?

10 comments:

Gaurav Sethi said...

Pak is fast getn a triple century rating - sehwag, younis, who next?

scary bit is, with huge personal scores, the press goes into overdrive, trumpeting the achievements, and we fans are also taken in. So, a bitch of a pitch is forgotten, and all we recall are Lara's, Sehwag's and Younis' triples. Cricket feeds on these scores for a long time, and the pitch, and the game's outcome is not a big ticket.

flip side, it does take some patience to play on such crappy pitches too. I for one, wouldn't have wasted my time here, declared my innings straight away.

straight point said...

that's the irony of it NC...

though hue and cry is made out of an incident like antigua which don't happen on as regular bases as this killer pitches but all that will be written will be about stat fest...

what about the patience of commentators who as if boring cricket is not enough are given the task of doing a commentary on it...?

Soulberry said...

How many test match triple hundreds in India?

But I'm applauding Younis along the way tomorrow. Records need to be broken to retain ambition.

straight point said...

SB...the pitches everywhere in general are anyway getting slower...why making it death wish for bowlers...where batsmen can feast endlessly till they get bore...

and even when sehwag was asked of his most valuable innings he picked the 200 at galle...not any of his tripple hundreds...i guess the same will be for younis if he were to answer the same questions down the line...

Q said...

I completely agree that the pitch is not wats right for tests and that its not a good advertisement at all. Either way, Pakistanis in general have stayed away from the grounds for tests, even from the interesting ones like the ones against India in Karachi and the England series in 2005-06..

Most fans watch test cricket on TV..

Having said that, in all honesty, this test match has not been boring even for a minute for me.

Initially I was excited about Sohail and Khurram making their debuts..

Secondly, I was interested to see how Pakistan survive the threat of Murali and Mendis..

Trust me, when uve been deprived of test cricket for 14 months and get to watch ur team try to save a match, its anything but boring..

Im in a house in Pakistan where 40-50 of us relatives have gathered for my brother's wedding - all of them have been glued to the tele. That just shows that its not been boring for us Pakistanis :-)

On the stats front. Well there are 12 frontline batsman playing in this test. All of them have got their chance to bat. Only 1 has reached a triple and another 2 a double. Sure the pitch is flat, but it takes something more than that to get to 200 and 300...

Younis and Samaraweera have played flawless innings... and given another pitch and a more potent bowling attack with this kind of determination and will (younis) and aggression (samaraweera), I reckon they would have gotten the same scores.

Having said all that, I agree that the pitch is not right.

But that cannot take away from the achievements..

straight point said...

Q...my post on pitch was though inspired by karachi pitch but was not restricted to this only...

its was more on the health of cricket rather then a comment on a country watching cricket after 14 months...

i feel at this time test cricket in general will be good if we wont see pitches like these in any part of world...and its high time something is done about it...

...and you would have glued to tv even more had it been more even contest... isn't it? :-)

Q said...

But it was even SP - Lanka got 644, and we're almost there ;-)

Haha.. on a more serious note, I agree with u regarding the pitch, which is why I kept stressing on that part.. my overall comment was also a general response to the varied views on the test rather than a response to your post :-)

Anonymous said...

This pitch is not a whole lot different from pitches made in Pakistan in the past, and pitches made in India against SA and in one of the match against Pakistan last year. The problem is with the bowling, Vaas is just a bit faster than an off spinner, and the Pakistani pacers had a collective test experience of about 25 test matches. I am sure this pitch has made Pakistan realize they do not have an all condition bowling attack anymore which they once had and they cannot use such pitches any more or else nobody is going to watch their games.

straight point said...

got it Q... :)

straight point said...

fair point wasim...in fact more than fair...

the bowling is way off the mark...but srilankan bowling (and selection) disappointed me more than pak bowling...

vaas is very strange selection on flat track...there is not swing available...and he don't have pace to penetrate on this kinda deck he is waste of a spot...