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hypocrisy at its best...

by straight point

every time new zealand has suffered defeat there come voices from all directions about preparing ‘green’ pitches…the attitude suddenly becomes 'let's shove them to the greenery reminiscent of india’s last tour…and see how it goes…'

the ‘green’ pitches they are referring to are meant to test india with seaming and swinging conditions…that this is only way they fathom nz’s chances…

no problem with that…

then by the same token why they piss off when we talk about preparing spinning tracks here…

does that not test the batsmen's skill…?

why don't spinning tracks get the same respect as say these ‘green’ tracks…?

or is this written in the cricket bible that only a ‘green’ pitch tests the skills of batsmen and others are just ‘road’ or ‘dust bowl’…?

so, dear friends, next time you find then whining on ‘dust bowls’ do not forget to laugh on the hypocrisy of these morons…

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

You fail to understand the difference between dust bowls and green tracks. While green tracks test the batsman's technique, they do offer consistent bounce and ample opportunities to score freely once the ball is around 30 overs old.
Dust bowls on the other hand, such as the one in Kanpur last year, offer a lot of variable bounce and endanger the batsman as well. Short balls keep low and as such the treat posed to batsman is very large.
Typically a test cricket pitch must offer lateral movement for the seamers for the first session/ day and begin to turn after the third day. In this way the batsman's technique will be tested.
And mind u, India aren't the best on green tracks. Tendulkar, dravid average around 35 in South Africa which is the only cricket nation where the ball stills moves around.
The Kiwis must prepare green tracks if they want to win.

straight point said...

thanks for enlightening me the difference between green tracks and dust balls...

though for your knowledge i was highlighting the prejudice of naming spinning tracks to 'dust ball' syndrome...

i have seen matches getting ended inside three days on 'sporty' wickets but whenever it ends on spinning tracks in similar periods i have also seen them pissing it off... and hence the whining... :)

Ben said...

It is pertinent to note that NZ doesn't prepare green pitches anymore and haven't done for years and that the pitches encountered by Indian last time around were exceptional. Even if the pitch at Wellington has more life in it than all the pitches used in the tour so far, it still would not necessarily count as "green".

Bear that in mind should NZ ever actually encounter a dust bowl in India.

straight point said...

ben how easy it is to brand these 'sporty' wickets as exception as if india greet every team with mine fields...isn't it..?

Ankit Poddar said...

SP,

such is the hypocrisy the indian team has encountered every where.

i truly believe that dan and his men are far more sporting than most of their counterparts in countries like Oz!

straight point said...

that's partially true...they have seen in hamilton that what we can do if there's some juice in pitch...but for dan-jesse partnership match could have ended in three days flat...

also its not only limited to nz all over world...as soon as we talk about spinning wickets they hear only 'dust bowls'...

something to do with cricketing translation...? ;-))

Vyom said...

Yaa I agree to a certain extent that there is some hypocrisy.
What I do want to say is that:Neither do we need tracks like India encountered in their last tour to New Zealand, nor do we need tracks like Kanpur or Mumbai which we have seen in India.
We need tracks which should produce results, but on the 5th day or end of the 4th day, provided two evenly matched teams are contesting.

Ankit Poddar said...

SP,

another cultural issue may be..

maa-ki, monkey... tomato, tamato ;)