What is harder - batting on a green top or bowling on a road...

[Outswinger@Pace]

Yes.

No.

Bitch I will cut you

Exactly the point I wanted to make!

 

[Daemon]

Is apple a tastier fruit than orange?

Can you specify which brand of apples and oranges you'd be tasting and which country they come from?

 

[Zinzan]

If hot sticky weather....bowling on a road comfortably

 

[smash84]

Can you specify which brand of apples and oranges you'd be tasting and which country they come from?

They are from Singapore

 

[Ausage]

Bitch I will cut you

Yeah well I'll, umm, peel you!

 

[subshakerz]

If you are facing a worldclass pacer or worldclass batsman, you are toast either way.

But ordinary bowlers are far, far more likely to waste a greentop than ordinary batsmen are a flat road. In fact, think of how many times you have seen pace bowlers get too excited when they see green on the wicket and spray the ball about. Batting on a dead wicket, you can take many more chances IMO, and the margin of error is so slight for bowling nowadays anyways.

On top of that, a decent batsman can adjust to a greentop after an hour or so of staying on the wicket, and the wicket condition is likely to change. A dead wicket, though, stays that way 5 days out of 5. Pace bowling is also more physically taxing anyways than batting.

In the end, it depends on success. For a batsman on a greentop, you can still make a good 40-60 and have done your bit towards the team cause. Bowlers have to take 10 arduous wickets regardless of pitch condition.

 

[Cevno]

Is apple a tastier fruit than orange?

Mangoes FTW TBH!!

 

[smash84]

If you are facing a worldclass pacer or worldclass batsman, you are toast either way.

But ordinary bowlers are far, far more likely to waste a greentop than ordinary batsmen are a flat road. In fact, think of how many times you have seen pace bowlers get too excited when they see green on the wicket and spray the ball about. Batting on a dead wicket, you can take many more chances IMO, and the margin of error is so slight for bowling nowadays anyways.

On top of that, a decent batsman can adjust to a greentop after an hour or so of staying on the wicket, and the wicket condition is likely to change. A dead wicket, though, stays that way 5 days out of 5. Pace bowling is also more physically taxing anyways than batting.

In the end, it depends on success. For a batsman on a greentop, you can still make a good 40-60 and have done your bit towards the team cause. Bowlers have to take 10 arduous wickets regardless of pitch condition.

great analysis