The decision to abandoned the match in Kotla's pitch was indeed a surprising development. Though pitch was definitely not among the best for batting, it was indeed not bad enough that match had to canceled. India has played in similar conditions many times in South Africa and West Indies where batsmen struggled and India could not manage big victories. In 2005 when India visited SA, almost all the matches were decided by margin of 20 runs where neither India nor SA could piled 250 runs mark.Similar condition were met in NewZealanad and in Australia aswell.Since Srilanka's batsman failled, Match was called off since it did not behave like a typical pitch bringing run riot. Ajay Jadeja and other famous cricket made the same opinion. Had not it been India, It would have been called as sporting pitch and not an embarassement.
Re: Surprising deciosn to call off the match
by Dara R on Dec 30, 2009 12:28 PM
SA & Aussies pitches have constant bounce and not dangerous...!!!...This pitch from the very 1st ball kept very low and on another instance suddenly bounced...!!! common no team will accept a pitch like this on a professional level and even if India batted this would've been the same many player would've got injured...!!!!
Re: Surprising deciosn to call off the match
by Gopi joseph on Dec 29, 2009 02:05 PM
There can be side ways movement in any pitch. Which is acceptable. But for a one day match from the begining the ball bounces unpredctably is can not be accepted. In Australia and south africa the pitches have more bounce but not like here. You see the same length ball one is bouncing and other one is keeping low. This is not the first time this is happening .We have been doing this for some time now. These things started after the advent of players like Azharudin. Indor mathch abandoned for the same reason. South Africa India match was finished inside three days. And capt. Dhoni offered the groundsman money. This is the sorry state of our cricket. Even countries like Bangaladesh are making good cricket pitch. This is a shame
Re: Re: Ajit Agarkar
by ulta pulta on Dec 28, 2009 07:22 PM
no actually as allrounder but that horrible batting Aus series did him in. Infact he was the most effective Indian bowler in the series
Yes but all this are after 80 for old days and 100-300 matches career not just 17-18 matches or 30-50 matches. So no one can plan like every 17-18 match to play exactly and sleep. It would be just an exception, which everyone can see clearly.
Re: @TruthBitter
by TruthisBitter on Dec 28, 2009 07:22 PM
thats not the criterion to judge thats y we use either averages or SR to judge the performance
