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At least in Division 2, as part of a trial.
Away team will rock up, check pitch and decide if they are going to bat, bowl, or erm, flip a coin...
Aimed at improving pitches and encouraging spin bowling.
At least in Division 2, as part of a trial.
Away team will rock up, check pitch and decide if they are going to bat, bowl, or erm, flip a coin...
Aimed at improving pitches and encouraging spin bowling.
Where is this then?At least in Division 2, as part of a trial.
Away team will rock up, check pitch and decide if they are going to bat, bowl, or erm, flip a coin...
Aimed at improving pitches and encouraging spin bowling.
Very valid point but doubt ECB will have thought of this?Interesting idea and it will even things out pitchwise. May give the away team an advantage in terms of selection though knowing in advance whether they will be batting last. I wonder if you can delay selection until the away team announces their decision, otherwise it is unfair on the home side.
LVCC division 2.Where is this then?
home advantage is important
It has got ridiculous in recent years though. Look at the pitches in India - there is no attempt to put anything in the pitch for seam bowlers, ball is turning from day one, wicket unplayable from day four.
While T20I and ODI remains an even contest in comparison, paying punters are going to favour that.
At least subcontinental teams will have to think twice about preparing sideways turners if they know they're going to have to bat last on it.
Yeah but you have total morons like Michael Vaughan listing bad pitches and then naming Trent Bridge in the ashes, he's a clown, England were 274-4 on day 1
I want pitches in Asia to spin though, it's why winning over there is so special!
You know my view on the wickets in the previous Ashes.
We prepared two seriously seaming wickets that heavily favoured our bowlers at Edgbaston and TB. Also Cardiff was deliberately slow to negate Johnson and Starc but with enough seam and uneven bounce to give our bowlers something. In contrast, Lords and the Oval were total roads which inevitably favoured whoever won the toss.
OK that's home advantage if you like, but the one-sidedness of the tests made the series all about groundsmen, not cricketers which diminished it in my opinion.
I really don't want to start an argument and it's nothing personal honestly but that's complete nonsense
None taken.
I don't think Lords was a good wicket, it was a road and favoured whoever won the toss and batted first. It was a good opportunity to see how good the Australians were, away from difficult wickets.
Re: Edgbaston, IIRC Cook said he would have batted first too. Clarke was clearly hoping to weather the overcast conditions in the first session and then make runs, but the cloud hung about a bit and both captains were surprised by the amount of seam in the wicket. (remember we were about 180/7 in our first innings)
When Cook won the toss at Trent Bridge, he knew exactly what the score was and put the Aussies in.
This argument has been done to death like. Whether you think the home advantage was fair or not, the point remains that test cricket now overwhelmingly favours the home side which diminishes it as a spectacle to the cricket watcher.