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*Official* India tour of England 2025 General Discussion
- Thread starter Thala_0710
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Bro he was batting in the evening vs a decent seamer. **** happens, nothing to do with mindset.
Chin Music
State Captain
IND vs ENG 4th Test: Why have pitches in England been flat? | Cricket News - Times of India This article is about a week old and is from the Times Of India, of all papers, discussing why the decks have been so flat this series.
So I tried to check how this series actually stacks up against other 3+ match series in averages per wicket as a measure of ‘pitch flatness’…but couldn’t get Statsguru to query with the right conditions.
Looking at all the 3+ match series that have taken place in England alone then, this series has the third highest average per wicket. The other two surprisingly also happen to feature India, on their tours in 1990 and 2002. These games also featured immense batting performances from Gooch, Dravid and Vaughn.
Per recent times though, this series is an outlier, with the closest average to the current series being the Sri Lanka tour in 2011.
https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e...e;template=results;type=aggregate;view=series
Looking at all the 3+ match series that have taken place in England alone then, this series has the third highest average per wicket. The other two surprisingly also happen to feature India, on their tours in 1990 and 2002. These games also featured immense batting performances from Gooch, Dravid and Vaughn.
Per recent times though, this series is an outlier, with the closest average to the current series being the Sri Lanka tour in 2011.
https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e...e;template=results;type=aggregate;view=series
Molehill
International Coach
The one I was thinking of as closest recently was the NZ Tour in 2022. The first 2 Tests both saw flat pitches that never really deteriorated. They were also noticeable for a set of Dukes balls that went utterly dead after 30 overs and thus middle orders scored bucket loads of runs. Think it would've challenged this if not for the first 2 innings at Lord's.
CricAddict
International Coach
All matches have gone till the last session and all matches have had a lot of drama. Pant and Stokes playing good knocks carrying an injury, match winning/saving knocks by Jamie Smith, Jadeja and Sundar, good bowling by Archer and Co to win the previous test. Root getting up to number two on all runs and Gill on the verge of breaking series records. Closely fought with series on the line going to the last test. Been good watching so far. This series is up there with the best in terms of cricket as well as drama.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Its amazing that for all of the good and bad cricket the teams have played while batting and bowling, its the fielding and esp. the catching that may decide the series. India lost two tests due to dropped catches, England lost one and drew the other which they could have well won due to their own dropped catches.
Shady Slim
International Coach
not dissimilar to india's last series here either really
Arachnödouche2.0
State Vice-Captain
Catches, runouts, injudicious hoicks when sitting pretty on hundreds, concussing your foot while trying to reverse-scoop yorkers, Prasidh Krishna, Gautam Gambhir, etc. List as long as Ben Stokes' rap sheet really.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
What was the pitch rating for this pitch? Surely it had to have been rated as less than satisfactory?