Try telling that to England in Rawalpindi.
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***Official*** India Tour of South Africa, 2023/24
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StephenZA
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It amazes me every time someone questions his place in the team.
The problem SA batting has is a lack of consistency and match practice. The talent is there but nobody truly gets a chance to hone there skills because the game is in such a poor state.
OverratedSanity
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Not underrated in the one place that matters
Cataloguing the best innings of X runs in test history
Cool thread OS. Just seen it and have enjoyed catching up this evening :)
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Your 2010/11 side literally **** the bed for one innings here against Australia. Only winning because Australia **** even more. And if you didn't watch the game then why the **** are you commenting like this?
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I dont know, maybe calm down a bit
Socerer 01
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least emotional Xix post
Wishful thinking there. Bloke doesn't seem to have 'calm down' in his vocabulary.
Manee
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The one thing that you could say is neither batting side made an effort to leave balls in the channel that would be missing off stump or bouncing over the top. However, this may be a natural result of the impulse to look to score on such decks. Very few wickets on day one were hitting the stumps. But granted this is easier said than done on a pitch offering such variable bounce and the odd one ducking in off the seam.
Manee
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I think it is all fine unless anyone was in danger - and that's not for me to say. Also amazing that it didn't really swing around because blue skies. If it did, maybe we'd have seen even lower scores.
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Rohit calls out ICC for supposed double standards in rating pitches: 'Hope they keep their ears and eyes open'
He took aim at the match referees and the ratings some of the pitches received at the 2023 World Cup, held in India
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wait the wc final pitch was rated below average?
subshakerz
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Well done India, great comeback
RossTaylorsBox
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Nah was average I think,Rohit calls out ICC for supposed double standards in rating pitches: 'Hope they keep their ears and eyes open'
He took aim at the match referees and the ratings some of the pitches received at the 2023 World Cup, held in India
wait the wc final pitch was rated below average?
Molehill
International Captain
Well it allowed Australia to win, so it should've been labelled ****ing atrocious.Rohit calls out ICC for supposed double standards in rating pitches: 'Hope they keep their ears and eyes open'
He took aim at the match referees and the ratings some of the pitches received at the 2023 World Cup, held in India
wait the wc final pitch was rated below average?
capt_Luffy
International Debutant
In all honesty, that Modi pitch was ****ing **** for an ODI match, let alone WC Final.
StephenZA
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On the pitch... it was screw up by the groundsman who should be taken to task... It was not a deliberate attempt by CSA to try turn the pitch in SA favour. It generally does not do SA team any favours.
The complaints of some of the Indian pitches in the past is that occasionally a stupid pitch is deliberately brought out that rags sideways from day 1, if it was purely a case of the groundsman screwing up then it deserves censure but not endless complaining. If however it was an attempt by BCCI or team request to deliberately alter the normal state of the pitch then that should also be taken to task and complained about.
More recently India has not done this and I've had no complaints in general about the Indian pitches, but I do remember when it was done. CSA also did it recently in JHB at Wanderers, when India toured a few years back. And that deserved censure as well.
The complaints of some of the Indian pitches in the past is that occasionally a stupid pitch is deliberately brought out that rags sideways from day 1, if it was purely a case of the groundsman screwing up then it deserves censure but not endless complaining. If however it was an attempt by BCCI or team request to deliberately alter the normal state of the pitch then that should also be taken to task and complained about.
More recently India has not done this and I've had no complaints in general about the Indian pitches, but I do remember when it was done. CSA also did it recently in JHB at Wanderers, when India toured a few years back. And that deserved censure as well.
silentstriker
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Rohit calls out ICC for supposed double standards in rating pitches: 'Hope they keep their ears and eyes open'
He took aim at the match referees and the ratings some of the pitches received at the 2023 World Cup, held in India
www.espncricinfo.com
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
I think Rohit was calmer in the WC finals leading our side than Xix has been posting in this page.
honestbharani
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Literally been 0 instances of this IMO. I think all home boards do try to prepare pitches that suit their team's strength to some level or the other. Honestly, I think some are just better at pulling it off than the others.
It has also been hilarious as we have seen almost every time they prepare something way off the dial towards one type of bowling, it has been the visiting side that come out victorious as it really reduces the gap in quality of the teams and it becomes a lottery/shootout often dependent on the toss.