India v England series

[Liverpool Beachball]

Ffs

 

[Silly Point]

That was nowt to do with the pitch!

 

[SAFC 83]

It is a bit of an echo chamber at times on here.

Not sure this is true. It's usually full on arguments about everything you can think of from my experience. Don't mention KP or Buttler for gods sake.

FFs man.

 

[Scotty 1978]

Great catch

 

[Pepe]

Well that wasn’t anything to do with the pitch.

 

[LD19SAFC]

Frustrating, don’t help ourselves

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

What a way to go Pope. Pant a bit fortunate with the bobble.

 

[SAFC11]

Well this is crap

 

[rentaghost]

Even if we did using the date just proves it has nothing to do with the pitch. A bit of a strange point.

While there’s has been the odd occasion England certainly can’t be accused of preparing pitches unfairly. Often we have rocked up at Lords and the Oval to find pitches that suit the opposition more. That time we prepared a Bunsen for Murali at the Oval ffs

 

[Concordsafc]

ali to come in and score a double hundred then take 6 for 20 England to win

 

[Julio_Schwarz]

Poor batting, done alot of hard work to do that. Lapse of concentration

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

It’s a shocking pitch of course. We will lose because Rohit and Rahane put on such a big partnership

 

[The Rat]

While there’s has been the odd occasion England certainly can’t be accused of preparing pitches unfairly. Often we have rocked up at Lords and the Oval to find pitches that suit the opposition more. That time we prepared a Bunsen for Murali at the Oval ffs

Lords is usually flat as a fart for when the Aussies arrive

I sat through s Steve Smith and Rogers marathon once on the flattest pitch

 

[rentaghost]

Whats that go to do with the pitch though?

Nothing at all. Someone said we don’t have tests in May I said we do.

 

[Wayne The Punk]

I am not surprised the umpires didnt ask to see the catch again because of that fumble. They must have had a clear view

 

[HarrogateMackem]

It’s a shocking pitch of course. We will lose because Rohit and Rahane put on such a big partnership

On such a pitch our spinners had to take advantage, which they couldn’t do. The ball was going off from about over four.

 

[SAFC 83]

While there’s has been the odd occasion England certainly can’t be accused of preparing pitches unfairly. Often we have rocked up at Lords and the Oval to find pitches that suit the opposition more. That time we prepared a Bunsen for Murali at the Oval ffs

We are very hospitable.

The worst doctored pitches in this country was when they started making them really flat and really durable to go the full five days. Like watching paint dry at times and no test at all. Just as bad as this pitch, just for different reasons.

 

[brandon]

I know this veered into ‘England v India’ territory because of the context of the conversation, but my initial comment was really country agnostic, it was just about spin-friendly tracks vs seam-friendly ones. If a test match played in a seam-friendly pitch produces 4 innings where scores are around 200-odd, I have never ever heard of anyone calling the pitch sub-standard. But same scores on a spinning track everyone is up in arms. I just want to understand why this is the case. Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but all I’m doing is looking at this from the perspective of balance of bat v ball.

Alright then, when was the last time you saw a game in England were four innings where around 200-odd and the pitch was the reason why?

 

[The Rat]

Imagine battling for nearly an hour on that pitch against the spinners then getting out like that

 

[Silly Point]

Trying the short ball first up, to an English batsman, on an Indian pitch like this

Moeen’s reputation precedes him sadly, embarrassingly so really