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India v England series

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Sea to Shining Sea said:
Its a very poor pitch and not designed for five days of test cricket. There shouldn’t be huge puffs of dust emerging from the surface on day one. It’s day three and there are huge explosions of black dust from the surface. In test match cricket, that shouldn’t be happening.

It’s not particularly an excuse or a complaint about India preparing pitches suited to their needs as England haven’t bowled well on it or batted well on it, but it is not a good quality test match pitch.
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Ignoring what it looks like, the balls haven’t misbehaved much. India batted fine on it with a century in both innings. The puffs aren’t causing massive issues. If we’d have bat competently in our first innings this could be a cracking game chasing 250-300, perhaps less if we bowled a bit better and held our catches. And if we’d bat properly first time round the pitch may well have made it to day 5.

Only ourselves to blame on this one. Nothing wrong with the pitch.
 
TopCat said:
Agree. Just throwing out a suggestion.
Pope looks to have the right technique for a no.3 - seems odd that the selectors are adamant that he should "learn his trade at 6" (not got a problem with that) but are happy to chuck Lawrence in at 3 after a couple of tests.
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Yeah quite. Lawrence has generally batted higher than Pope thus far. And it was a case of no other choice really!
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
Its a very poor pitch and not designed for five days of test cricket. There shouldn’t be huge puffs of dust emerging from the surface on day one. It’s day three and there are huge explosions of black dust from the surface. In test match cricket, that shouldn’t be happening.

It’s not particularly an excuse or a complaint about India preparing pitches suited to their needs as England haven’t bowled well on it or batted well on it, but it is not a good quality test match pitch.
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Test match cricket presents different challenges - Its not a good pitch by any stretch but its not as horrendous as you are making out now we have seen the pitch develop. The puffs of dust were to me an indicator that the pitch might completely disintegrate but it hasn't. It was a good enough pitch on day 1 to score 329 and has been a good enough pitch to score 284 on the third day. There are many pitches around the world in many tests where that hasn't been the case.
 
Be interesting to see if these 2 can get us passed the 30 over mark as apparently the ball does nowt by then....

(immediate jinx incoming)
 
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