What can you say about a series in which 2,133 runs have been scored in 19 sessions for the loss of just 25 wickets? What can you say of the 10 centuries scored already, of a bowler as accomplished as Muttiah Muralitharan being carted all around Green Park? And is Test cricket in India really on an intravenous drip if more than 25,000 take up vantage points in the dilapidated concrete stands in Kanpur?
Over the past 24 hours, I’ve fielded calls from two radio stations, one in the UK and the other in Australia, both wanting to know why pitches in India are so placid, and whether they are responsible for the decline in popularity of the five-day game. Sunil Gavaskar quipped during the Ahmedabad Test that the surface was like a road and, apart from the opening hour of the series when four wickets fell, the contest between bat and ball has been as unedifying as Muhammad Ali reducing Ernie Terrell’s face to pulp while hissing: “What’s my name, Uncle Tom?”
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The scum-bcci have clearly realized where the cash is and are hell bent on ending Test cricket in India in order to achieve their means.
It has become quite clear to me. They are trying their hardest to kill the game off so they can focus on their Microsoft style stolen investment the IPL which like every windows os ever made was a rip off of an original and genius idea (ICL).
Also you got to remember that thought Headingley ended in 3 days, it was fair for both sides and unpredictable. Basically both sides had to deal with incredible swing an seam, and it was just pot luck regarding the weather conditions as to whether you batted when it was doing more.
On a dustbowl, it is truly unfair, because the pitch is a road for the first day and a half and then it falls apart. Therefore if you win the toss you win the game. This is not the case on a seaming wicket. If the dustbowls turned square from ball 1 then it would be fair but they dont. I think the ICC is right in this respect to some extent.