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Everyone knocking the pitch on here but looks every bit a 400 run first innings par score for Leysy.
 
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Hasn't Sunil Gavaskar got a chip on his shoulder. He reckons if it was an Indian batting like Handscombe everyone would say he was running away from fast bowling.
For mine Handscombe is getting his head right behind the ball on impact, and is looking quite sound to me.
 
tigerman said:
Hasn't Sunil Gavaskar got a chip on his shoulder. He reckons if it was an Indian batting like Handscombe everyone would say he was running away from fast bowling.
For mine Handscombe is getting his head right behind the ball on impact, and is looking quite sound to me.
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I dunno, if he left that back foot on leg stump with Gilchrist, Warne, Ponting, Langer and Hayden in the cordon I can guess what sort of reception he would have received!
 
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I just think it is too much. We all expect sub continent pitches to spin but these are just poor pitches

Now we are seeing balls keep low as well, in the 2nd session day 1.
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Funny thing though, we've been bitching about Indian pitches for 50 years n more. They've learnt to play competitive cricket on all pitches, not just their sub continent dust bowls. Maybe it's time the rest of the cricket world took a leaf n tried to genuinely adapt to the sub continent pitches instead of bitching n moaning about how unfair they are.
India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, ( Pakistan ) half the wolds cricket is played on the sub continent, perhaps some people in the game need to pay more attention to things around them.
 
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If I were Merv Hughes I’d be leaving India right now before they find out he’s eaten a baby elephant.
 
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TigerMasochist said:
Funny thing though, we've been bitching about Indian pitches for 50 years n more. They've learnt to play competitive cricket on all pitches, not just their sub continent dust bowls. Maybe it's time the rest of the cricket world took a leaf n tried to genuinely adapt to the sub continent pitches instead of bitching n moaning about how unfair they are.
India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, ( Pakistan ) half the wolds cricket is played on the sub continent, perhaps some people in the game need to pay more attention to things around them.
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Completely missed the point TM

Pakistani pitches are roads, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi pitches spin (and so they should) but aren’t doing what Indian pitches do from day 1.

There is a line and that line is the pitch should be prepared to last the 5 days of a test match and not have cracks on day 1. Absolutely we should be prepared to play in all conditions but the Indians push the boundaries.

Funny how the request for our team to practice on the Nagpur pitch from the last test match was granted post game and it was then mysteriously watered before it could happen …
 
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Great to see someone batting in a wide brimmed hat, I dips me lid Handscombe.
 
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