morgieb
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Watching cricket recently, I have noticed one thing - if pitches even have a little bit of juice in them then the games are generally quite low-scoring.
Now I didn't watch that game, but I have had the misfortune of having to read a 30 page debate on the pitch condition of the India/South Africa game. What is clear is that a return to turning-based wickets in India have seen the highest score in the series be 215....which is pretty bad for wickets which aren't the Grand Canyon. And you can survive and score runs with some patience.
Let's also look at Adelaide. It is quite a bit more bowler-friendly than your average Adelaide wicket, yes. But green/bouncy enough to see 12 wickets fall on one day for about 250 runs? That I'm not sure about. It still looked a pretty decent wicket.
And let's not forget the Ashes. The pitches had swing but they were far from greentops. Yet you saw **** like 60 all out, and England only reaching 400 (on a very low wicket) once despite some often very average bowling from Australia. Plus also once a side got on top, they stayed there and the opposition's batting would inevitably collapse.
What is clear to me that unless you have a massive road (like what we saw at Perth, and also the first test in the UAE) scores in the last year or so have been quite low at Test cricket. This can only mean in my eyes that batting standards are pretty poor these days. Do you agree?
Now I didn't watch that game, but I have had the misfortune of having to read a 30 page debate on the pitch condition of the India/South Africa game. What is clear is that a return to turning-based wickets in India have seen the highest score in the series be 215....which is pretty bad for wickets which aren't the Grand Canyon. And you can survive and score runs with some patience.
Let's also look at Adelaide. It is quite a bit more bowler-friendly than your average Adelaide wicket, yes. But green/bouncy enough to see 12 wickets fall on one day for about 250 runs? That I'm not sure about. It still looked a pretty decent wicket.
And let's not forget the Ashes. The pitches had swing but they were far from greentops. Yet you saw **** like 60 all out, and England only reaching 400 (on a very low wicket) once despite some often very average bowling from Australia. Plus also once a side got on top, they stayed there and the opposition's batting would inevitably collapse.
What is clear to me that unless you have a massive road (like what we saw at Perth, and also the first test in the UAE) scores in the last year or so have been quite low at Test cricket. This can only mean in my eyes that batting standards are pretty poor these days. Do you agree?