India v South Africa, 3rd Test, Nagpur, 25-29 November, 2015

Red wrote:SA's problem will probably be psychological as much as any tangible demons in the surface.

Are you trying to say the pitch isn't doing anything?

Tahir plumb to Mishra's 1st ball.

Brainfarkingdead. If you have to use a NWM it should be Harmer.

What chance an ABdV masterpiece to get SAf close? Unlikely on this deck, I suppose, but would be great watching.

So a test first?

The same two batsmen who started the day, finished the day.

The Tahir as nightwatchman is working well.

skully wrote:SAffers have 3 days to get 310. Would be as funny as fark if they gave it a shake!!!

i hope they win it and not just cos theyre playing india. any nation that serves up a pitch like this for a test deserves to be flattened

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:
i hope they win it and not just cos theyre playing india.  any nation that serves up a pitch like this for a test deserves to be flattened

Doctoring pitches is a subtle art as England demonstrated this summer

Poms were hardly subtle.

taipan wrote:

Red wrote:SA's problem will probably be psychological as much as any tangible demons in the surface.

Are you trying to say the pitch isn't doing anything?

No, especially if you read my earlier post.

horace wrote:Poms were hardly subtle.

The pitches weren't that favourable toward our attack horace, Aus just weren't good enough to compete (which was a genuine surprise to me as I thought you'd win).

Anyway, back to this Indian/SA series, this bullshit just shows the BCCI's utter contempt for test cricket and everything it stands for. And as 1 of the 3 self-appointed cricket superpowers (OK, the only superpower along with two lapdogs) they can do as they please and everyone else can go fukk themselves.

Report us for bad pitches - do we look like we give a fukk. Do it, we dare you - we'll simply have a major huff, never host a test again and buy all of your top talent and employ them in a year-round IPL-a-thon and we'll watch and laugh as you play test cricket with a mix of county/state trundlers and over-the-hill has-beens. And your test teams will slip to the embarrassing levels of the WI - from which there may be no return.

Lindsay no.2 wrote:

horace wrote:Poms were hardly subtle.

The pitches weren't that favourable toward our attack horace, Aus just weren't good enough to compete (which was a genuine surprise to me as I thought you'd win).

Noble Australia and their 'good cricket wickets', that just so happen to be suited to their style of play.

Brass Monkey wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:

horace wrote:Poms were hardly subtle.

The pitches weren't that favourable toward our attack horace, Aus just weren't good enough to compete (which was a genuine surprise to me as I thought you'd win).

Noble Australia and their 'good cricket wickets', that just so happen to be suited to their style of play.

Let's be fair Dan. Perth has always been a pacy, bouncy wicket which you can play good cricket on.

taipan wrote:So a test first?

The same two batsmen who started the day, finished the day.

Off the top of my head:

Hunte & Sobers 57
Lawry & Simpson 65
Taylor & Marsh 89
Jayasuriya & Mahanama 97
S.Waugh & Blewett 97
VVS & Dravid 2001
Sanga & Jaya 2006

In fact there have been 21 instances of the same two batsmen ending the day as started it. Of course, that was in the one innings.

Lindsay no.2 wrote:

horace wrote:Poms were hardly subtle.

The pitches weren't that favourable toward our attack horace, Aus just weren't good enough to compete (which was a genuine surprise to me as I thought you'd win).

Anyway, back to this Indian/SA series, this bullshit just shows the BCCI's utter contempt for test cricket and everything it stands for. And as 1 of the 3 self-appointed cricket superpowers (OK, the only superpower along with two lapdogs) they can do as they please and everyone else can go fukk themselves.

Report us for bad pitches - do we look like we give a fukk. Do it, we dare you - we'll simply have a major huff, never host a test again and buy all of your top talent and employ them in a year-round IPL-a-thon and we'll watch and laugh as you play test cricket with a mix of county/state trundlers and over-the-hill has-beens. And your test teams will slip to the embarrassing levels of the WI - from which there may be no return.

wheres kerry packer when you really need him?

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:So a test first?

The same two batsmen who started the day, finished the day.

Off the top of my head:

Hunte & Sobers 57
Lawry & Simpson 65
Taylor & Marsh 89
Jayasuriya & Mahanama 97
S.Waugh & Blewett 97
VVS & Dravid 2001
Sanga & Jaya 2006

In fact there have been 21 instances of the same two batsmen ending the day as started it. Of course, that was in the one innings.

Thanks, but on now many of those days did 20 wickets fall?

suspect skully answered your original question, not the one you thought you had asked

Give taips a go. Skully should have typed in halogen.

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:

horace wrote:Poms were hardly subtle.

The pitches weren't that favourable toward our attack horace, Aus just weren't good enough to compete (which was a genuine surprise to me as I thought you'd win).

Noble Australia and their 'good cricket wickets', that just so happen to be suited to their style of play.

Let's be fair Dan. Perth has always been a pacy, bouncy wicket which you can play good cricket on.

Since 87 Perth has relied on swing with the new ball and the hope they have left enough moisture in the pitch to stop it becoming the wozzie version of the Grand Canyon

The imperfect storm flustercluck of the bad Kookaburra's , a non cracking pitch and extremely hot weather made it an awful Test

embee wrote:

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:

horace wrote:Poms were hardly subtle.

Monkey gets it wrong. Poms have ahistory of pitch doctoring. Our pitches have traditionally had unique character.
The pitches weren't that favourable toward our attack horace, Aus just weren't good enough to compete (which was a genuine surprise to me as I thought you'd win).

Noble Australia and their 'good cricket wickets', that just so happen to be suited to their style of play.

Let's be fair Dan. Perth has always been a pacy, bouncy wicket which you can play good cricket on.

Since 87 Perth has relied on swing with the new ball and the hope they have left enough moisture in the pitch to stop it becoming the wozzie version of the Grand Canyon

The imperfect storm flustercluck of the bad Kookaburra's , a non cracking pitch and extremely hot weather made it an awful Test

WA shd lose test status. BM poms invented pitch doctoring. Think Laker test.

lardbucket wrote:suspect skully answered your original question, not the one you thought you had asked

lardbucket wrote:suspect skully answered your original question, not the one you thought you had asked

No, I deliberately worded it that way as I assumed people would know wickets had fallen.

You've seen skully's quiz questions ...

taipan wrote:

lardbucket wrote:suspect skully answered your original question, not the one you thought you had asked

No, I deliberately worded it that way as I assumed people would know wickets had fallen.

People obviously knew wickets had fallen.

An entirely correct answer to the question you posed did not need to address that parameter.

Crikey, Elgar has hit Ashtray into the stands.