I can understand a sporting body saying that.
Insurers and lawyers and judges don’t like unpredictability. Even if we do.
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If the umpires discuss calling off a Test at the end of day three, then yeah it deserves a bad rating.
A worse one than the MCG got, imo.
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You watch, some Indian pitch that turns square on day one will be rated as perfect.
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It’s all over the shop.
These two consecutive Tests in India were rated below average and very good.
See if you can pick which is which and get your head around the ratings generally.
The pitch South Africa and India played on earlier in the year in SA, now that should of been ranked as dangerous and hard to bat on.
Agreed. That MCG pitch was a disgrace. I thought the Perth pitch was OK.
Seam movement is fine. Green top early and then if it starts to jag off the cracks as a game progresses, no problem. Part of the game. But the variable bounce - more so if some are rearing rather than some keeping low - is very problematic. The delivery in Perth that was reasonably full and still cleared the keeper rang warning bells and probably made rating the pitch pretty tricky.
Not as bad of course as This one at Sabina Park, which actually was abandoned after the England top-order was literally pummelled.
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Dan Christian has to be one of the more underrated all rounders in T20 cricket, almost the perfect late overs batsman and a more than handy medium pacer with most of the tricks needed in the shortest form of the game.
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That description from wimm wasn’t for the MCG pitch last year. Not sure which pitch it was describing though.
Imo, that MCG pitch should never have been rated poor. 70 overs for the match were lost to rain. It most likely would have been a cracking finish if not for the rain.
Wanderers.
I think it might be the one robbo referred to.
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I’m not saying the MCG pitch was great.
But that it can have its international venue status put in jeopardy over it is a friggin’ joke.
And that it can be given three points out of a maximum five in four years over that match when Ranchi had first innings of 450 and 600 with 25 wickets lost in five full days and gets the top possible rating, then the rating system and the penalties are extremely broken.
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Totally agree
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Agree with the agreement.
The system is totally ridiculous. Just another arbitrary and unnecessary point of contention introduced for no gain.
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Yep that was the one. If you could get even a 50 on that pitch then you were going to be able to make runs anywhere
Get ready for the return of Mitch Marsh and Handscomb to be dropped.
“Wants support for the frontline bowlers”.
7 overs of trash for the game HERE WE COME.
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And bountiful agro to boot
He played as a guest T20 player for Spotswood in the VTCA. Promptly made a 40-ball hundred…
Glenn Maxwell everybody. Unbelievable ball striking. Already lost two pills out of the ground…
One was an amazingly clean switch hit six too.
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