India v Aus
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Apart from the modern NZ day 1 fake green-road, that were for both tests last year. South Africa have never hit a green-top in NZ since re-admission.
If they did, they would have ripped us apart with Donald, Pollock, Steyn, Philander, Morkel et al.
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I recall (maybe completely incorrectly) that a few years ago there was a number of pitch's prepared in NZ that looked hideously green but the played quite well?
May have been something to do with covid and not having time to prepare them correctly so they had to have the grass there to hold them together otherwise they'd fall apart?
They'd look green as apples on the first day, then brown off and yeah by day 5 they were literally falling to pieces.
Of course I can't remember any useful information like dates or who they were playing that might help identify when this happened.
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@KiwiMurph said in India v Aus:
Aus win the toss and bat.
Khawaja gone thanks to a successful Indian review.
good review! Looked marginal live, but they really got that right. Well done.
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@Rapido said in India v Aus:
It is a strange phenomenon that LHBs are very rare in the Indian system. Where as in most other countries the proportion of LHBs that rise to the top are waaaaaaaaay out of proportion to the numbers in society. Even accounting for those who bat with their 'wrong' hand compared to their bowling and throwing.
I think I've read/heard that they generally get eaten up in the system that probably has 0.8 billion really good off-spinners.
So, contrary to other countries, being a LHB is a disadvantage in India. But, why this wouldn't also hold true for Sri Lanka etc, I don't get. As SL could be called the land of the LHB. So, probably a theory that needs more analysis ...
But, honestly. Try to list Indian LHBs' Ganguly, Gambhir, Kambli .... thats it right? in about 40 years? Unless you are a nerd and remember Wookeri Raman in the 1990 tour here ....
There's a theory about it relating to hockey for women's cricket here - maybe hockey alongside those 800 million offspinners in India too...
And a related conversation further into the thread:
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@Kiwiwomble said in India v Aus:
@Rapido im honest not sure, im not even sure it works, just that there was a bit out outcry that we were trying it
Might have been a different team?
I remember when John Wright brought his Indians out here, we gave them something as green as Queen Jealousy's fiery green gown!
Wee Davey gone and it's a thing of beauty to send him on his way - cartwheeling stumps!!!
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@Chris-B quite possibly, im definitely not an Almanac, wasn;t so much about who it was against as pointing out pitches that favour the home team are not new and NZ are not above doing it...but this is at best a very extreme example of it
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@KiwiMurph said in India v Aus:
Kohli puts Steve Smith down on what was a very tough chance.
Really good battle this.
That chance was so quick, just reflex. He did well to get his hand to it
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@Chris-B said in India v Aus:
After one over Rohit has surpassed the joint run-making contributions of Waj, Warner, Renshaw, Cummins, Murphy, Lyon and Boland.
That was an especially generous opening over from a bowler of Pat Cummins quality. Lyon being brought into the attack as I type... thought Boland deserved at least a second over with the new ball, given he settled into his work without a first over of random looseners...
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Looking at the Aussie wickets, the plan to doctor the pitch isn't apparent yet.
Waj - feet
Warner - feet
Labuschagne - decision making poor
Henshaw - close umpiring decision but half-arsed feet and not playing for spin.
Smith - massive gap between bat and bad
Carey - reverse sweep. ugh...
Cummins - good ball to a tail ender but poor decision
Murphy - reaching
Hanscomb - trying to smack it 8 down, so got what it deserved.
Boland - played the wrong line. No feet. He's a #11 -
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