Ban the GABBA

damochandler

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Actually the Gabba has the worst record of producing results of any ground in the country since 2000. The ranks are.
1. MCG 11 results from 11 Test matches
2. SCG 10 from 11
3. WACA 9 from 11
3. Adelaide Oval 9 from 11
5. Bellerive 4 from 5
6. Gabba 8 from 12* (assuming a draw in the currnet test)
2001 rain new zealand nearly won
2003 rain india were were set a total on the final day
2010 flat pitch
2012 rain
 

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2001 rain new zealand nearly won
2003 rain india were were set a total on the final day
2010 flat pitch
2012 rain
There has been plenty of rain effect test matches in other cities yet still managed results. Remember that play is extended on other days by up to 1 hour to make up for time lost. By close of play tonight only 3 hours (half a day) will of been lost and I doubt that even an extra full day would of delivered a result. So it should read

2010 Flat pitch
2012 Flat pitch

Can't remember how much play was lost in 2001 & 03, but if NZ almost won it would suggest not that much.
 

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There has been plenty of rain effect test matches in other cities yet still managed results. Remember that play is extended on other days by up to 1 hour to make up for time lost. By close of play tonight only 3 hours (half a day) will of been lost and I doubt that even an extra full day would of delivered a result. So it should read

2010 Flat pitch
2012 Flat pitch

Can't remember how much play was lost in 2001 & 03, but if NZ almost won it would suggest not that much.
2012 a full day was called off. are you forgetting that. 2001 2 hours nearly every day we had rain and good captaincy by both fleming and steve made a result a chance. 2003 the first day half of it was ruined by rain and it rained for most of the test
 

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2012 a full day was called off. are you forgetting that. 2001 2 hours nearly every day we had rain and good captaincy by both fleming and steve made a result a chance. 2003 the first day half of it was ruined by rain and it rained for most of the test
What will be lost is half a day not a full day.

Combined 1st innings total 14/1015 and you're trying to tell me it's not a flat track?
Can have have some of what you're on?
 

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What will be lost is half a day not a full day.

Combined 1st innings total 14/1015 and you're trying to tell me it's not a flat track?
Can have have some of what you're on?

you lost me there. take a day without play away from this game and it's always going to look like a flat pitch.
 

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you lost me there. take a day without play away from this game and it's always going to look like a flat pitch.
Of the day's play that was lost, 1 hour was made up on Day 3, 1 hour on Day 4 and another hour today, so of 6 hours lost, 3 hours have been made up.

Even if you do take a full day out, the fact remains that if you can't get 20 wickets in 4 days it's a flat track, and to get to 20 we need to see another 4 go today.
 
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