It's amazing that this never changes. India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka cut sick on softer turners and England, Australia and South Africa dominate green bouncers. In the age of proffesionalism it's pretty rubbish that these guys just can't adapt. Every other dport, the athletes are getting better and better. Cricket is stuck in the 80s.
So after growing up on wickets with bounce and against pace bowling a batsman just adjusts? Vice versa with batsmen used to low pitches and spin?
The difference with cricket and other sports is that conditions are variable. The pitch is the variable, with every one different in the way it plays and deteriorates. Basketballers always play on wooden boards, footballers of all codes grass, ping pong players on a table, they may vary slightly but essentially they are the same surface. The same cannot be said of a pitch.
And then you have the differences in bowler actions, types of delivery, effects of the weather on the ball.
And then there is the ball. Again, unlike any other game I can think of, the effects that conditions and players have on the ball can determine what the ball does in a game or even an innings. Compare it to baseball, a similar bat on ball game - there are over 100 ball changes a game and the ball is not allowed to get a speck of damage on it lest it influence what a pitcher can do with it.
If everyone was playing on concrete pitches, with balls that did not age or were changed regularly in indoor stadiums than adjustment would be quite easy. But by f**k it would be boring.
