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3rd Test: India v South Africa at Nagpur, Nov 25-29, 2015

TheParraboy

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Team India won the toss and are batting today on Day 1

1/69 21 overs

No Steyn or Philander for the Proteas

India with 3 spinners and Beaker
 

Bazal

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This pitch will be unplayable in a few days. It's another absolutely disgraceful wicket
 

JJ

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This pitch will be unplayable in a few days. It's another absolutely disgraceful wicket

Yep, disgraceful wickets of quite different kinds in the two big series atm - both home associations should be ashamed - but they are 2 of the big 3, so wont give a shit

India all out 215, South Africa 11/2 in response
 

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I watched a bit of this last night wondering how we would bat on such a pitch, I also thought I would rather a pitch like this than the one at the WACA.

Batting on pitches like this seems to be a lost art for non Indian teams as even the Pakis dont get to doctor their pitches like this anymore.
 

JJ

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Jaapies 58/7

The wicket is doing too much - real shame, two potentially excellent series being ruined by shit wickets
 

Hutty1986

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Ridiculous that India scrape their way to scores around the 200 mark and they are proving more than enough runs to play with.
 

ANTiLAG

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Ridiculous that India scrape their way to scores around the 200 mark and they are proving more than enough runs to play with.

Its not ridiculous. Far from it. It would be like a NZ'er or Indian complaining about Australian roads of pitches where scoring 300-450 against Australia in Australia is destined to lose in recent times. Australian pitches are doctored to have no movement to protect its own batsmen while having pace and bounce (but even bounce) to look after its endless glut of quality fast bowlers. Australia was always destined to win that war of bowling attrition with Harris, Johnson, Pattinson, Hazelwood, Bollinger, Bird, Siddle, and Starc. It was all fine and dandy until Kane and Ross got runs. I mean when a team like India scores 769 runs in a match and lose by 48 runs, that is just as 'ridiculous'. The second day only had 32 overs!
 
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Disgraceful wicket.

Yep - but no moreso than the Perth one - any wicket that means one discipline is to a large extent redundant is ridiculous

I love test cricket, but this stuff is making it almost unwatchable
 

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Yep - but no moreso than the Perth one - any wicket that means one discipline is to a large extent redundant is ridiculous

I love test cricket, but this stuff is making it almost unwatchable

No. If Boult and Southee are fit when Australia tour New Zealand, give them two of the greenest wickets ever seen. Just paint some lines and put the stumps in the turf. Watling, Craig and Williamson will still make the catches. And send up some planes for cloud seeding.
 
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TheParraboy

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No. If Boult and Southee are fit when Australia tour New Zealand, give them two of the greenest wickets ever seen. Just paint some lines and put the stumps in the turf. Watling, Craig and Williamson will still make the catches. And send up some planes for cloud seeding.

Yeah sure, Starc, Pattinson (will be fit by then) will be really disappointed with that :lol::lol:

you'd be biting your own tail off :lol:
 

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Fancy countries preparing wickets to suit their strength.

We just prepare roads that break our own bowlers.
 

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Yep - but no moreso than the Perth one - any wicket that means one discipline is to a large extent redundant is ridiculous

I love test cricket, but this stuff is making it almost unwatchable

I'd say it's much, much worse than the Perth wicket. Perth was flat but both sides still missed chances that could have resulted in...well a result. That's not to say Perth was a good wicket, it mostly took the contest out of the cricket match. This is the kind of pitch that takes the cricket out of the cricket match
 

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Yeah sure, Starc, Pattinson (will be fit by then) will be really disappointed with that :lol::lol:

you'd be biting your own tail off :lol:

Nah, you haven't been watching (remember England?)

Our bats actually have some technique
 

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Fancy countries preparing wickets to suit their strength.

We just prepare roads that break our own bowlers.

That is your strength. You have (or possibly had now in present tense) so many quality fast bowlers. Your batsman just cannot handle movement. And the roads still have pace and bounce, albeit even bounce, which means that Johnson, Harris and Pattinson at mid 140's or more were still fair prospects on roads to go with Starc, Siddle, Cummins, Bollinger, Bird and Hazelwood*. So India can score over 750 runs in a match and lose. Touring seamers like India have no controlled pace, they're not going to get movement off the pitch, you've taken them out of the game and there is no sign of spin until day 5, except that is toss reliant of batting first. Its very clever. If AUstralia bat first, there is the mind battle of a first innings score of 550+ and sledging that could also lead to a collapse. Then if you have a captain winning 80% of his tosses...

*Faulkner would make almost every test team in the world but he's too slow to make the Australian team.
 
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