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by Q
I completely agree that the pitch is not what's 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..
I'm 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 it's 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..
Married to test cricket in Karachi.
who made this son of a pitch?
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…?
Stop press, stop TV: Younis Khan doubles up.
The third double in four days. Ten Sports just couldn’t take it, neither could Hathway Cable. Is it a service to the cricketing community to be off air? Can they abandon a test after 3 ½ days, or does Faisal Iqbal need to score some runs, now that he’s made it back again. Javed Uncle will be happy. It’s been 8 years since his debut, more than 14 months since his last test, (at least he has something in common with his teammates) and a nowhere test average of 25. But he has scored one hundred, that too against India, and at Karachi, where else.
