Very poor session by the England Batsmen.
We’ve only gone in with one spinner Leach! Which means Root may have to bowl a lot.
Looks like it was a good toss to lose, but also looks like the pitch again has been prepared for the Indians, rather than a fair pitch for both teams.
That's what happens though isn't it? Every home team in the world tries to prepare pitches that will suit them, England are no different. Root had no complaints after the 2nd test.
I suppose the more relevant discussion is based around the game being able to go 4/5 days - initially you wouldn't think so, given the spin we've already seen and dust being thrown up.
Surely we prepare wickets that will respond to overhead conditions? There aren't many spinners wickets as such in the UK, Taunton perhaps and it's never been the nature of British wickets. Wickets in the sub-continent have spun more, can't see why the complaints now. They have high quality spinners, we don't.Well they were talking about matches being reduced to 4 days, because test matches rarely go to the 5th day, at this rate we will be lucky to get to the third day.
England prepare there pitches, and the ball doesn’t spin as much early on, End of Day 2 and then 3 starts to do a bit. I don’t think the pitches are prepared for home advantage. A lot of it depends on overhead conditions, and that’s just luck if you bowling or not.
I agree - a five day test ideally lasts well into the last day given two reasonably matched teams. Obviously the Indians are going to prepare a pitch that suits them, but I think they have gone too far with pitches that are taking huge amounts of spin on the first day. Equally obviously one of the problems is that we do not have a single top class spinner - or this tactic wouldn't work.I suppose the more relevant discussion is based around the game being able to go 4/5 days - initially you wouldn't think so, given the spin we've already seen and dust being thrown up.
We can just reuse this postJust switched it on, wow! Collapse.
To be fair though it shouldn't be turning as much as it is on day one. Even Graeme Swann is astonished by it. He says it's already looking like a day 4 pitch.No kidding! How unreasonable that the home side should prepare a pitch to suit their own local climatic conditions and their own bowling line up. No home team prepares a pitch based on any concept of 'fairness'. It's a competition.
No kidding! How unreasonable that the home side should prepare a pitch to suit their own local climatic conditions and their own bowling line up. No home team prepares a pitch based on any concept of 'fairness'. It's a competition.