Border Gavaskar Trophy, India v Australia, 1st Test 9-13 Feb, 1430hrs at Nagpur

[kickazz]

Show me where what Nagpur has done is against the law.

No not gonna play your games mate.

Cowards.

 

[KBLT]

Show me where what Nagpur has done is against the law.

If your defense is "it's not technically against the rules", what you're doing is shithouse.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Couldn’t go much worse than his usual performance in India

I think we should demand he do it in England actually. Out for under 10 an innings LH to Broad.

 

[akkaps]

If your defense is "it's not technically against the rules", what you're doing is shithouse.

mankad

 

[dogs105]

mankad

Nah.

Mankad's the same for both teams...

 

[KBLT]

mankad

Closer to bodyline

 

[Kapow!!!]

As if the Australian or the English don't do it either to favour their bowlers. Pot kettle

Mate, this is next level by anyone's standards. I'm fine with preparing a pitch to favour your team but when it's not even prepared evenly not allowing the pitch to degrade evenly it really is pushing the envelope of "home ground conditions" well and truly to breaking point. If it was just a rank turner it'd be fine, that's the conditions. But when MOST of the pitch is prepared one way and a very select portion to the left handers is prepared another way, that just doesn't pass the good faith test.

You're literally just pushing the same false equivalence the Indian media is trying to peddle.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I don't have a problem with the home team preparing beneficial pitches - that's home town advantage.

But the pitch itself has to be consistent. You can't be artificially creating different conditions for right handers and left handers. That crosses the line into cheating for me.

Makes me wonder whether the rating system for pitches works. Yeah, you can rate Nagpur as poor, and it can be punished if it happens again. But there are so many test grounds in most countries it doesn't matter if you temporarily lose one or two of them. Should their be demerit points for the home country too? (Not that the ICC would have the balls to punish India anyway I guess.)

 

[HODGEYROAD]

When India come here again in 20 months or so make sure we create pitches with bounce and pace, although they'll be a threat on them also with Bumrah, Shami and Siraj.

 

[spenze]

Peth is prime example of this.

Perth is a road. This isn't a pitch that spins, it is a pitch designed to defeat left handers, that is the bit that goes against the grain.

It is behaviour that shows the BCCI are so scared of losing there jobs that they would go to this extreme

 

[Kapow!!!]

Pitch aside I do really enjoy the away series in India. It's the 2 teams with the biggest home ground advantages in world cricket and takes great teams to win the away series. The injuries on both sides and the selection issues make this fascinating.

Hoping Australia can take a match or survive a couple of draws to make this series interesting but I'd predict India will be too good at home like they were out here recently.

 

[kickazz]

So the question is, with their best pace attack of all time and coming off two away series wins against the Aussie, why are India so scared?

Have Australia improved that much? I don't know that the summer's opponents really tested us.

 

[western royboy]

 

[kickazz]

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Does that list include curators and the BCCI?

 

[western royboy]

Does that list include curators and the BCCI?

Match Officials

 

[Richard Cranium]

What's stopping the Australians from building pitches to favour their bowlers in this way.

A modicum of self-respect?

 

[swingdog]

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All of that has pretty much gone out the window these last few years.

 

[kickazz]

Gotta admit it's pretty funny.

In years to come who will guess that these photos are from 2023 and not decades earlier

 

[western royboy]

All of that has pretty much gone out the window these last few years.

Agreed which is sad - I’m a cricket lover first and foremost - little by little that love is dying. A big chunk died tonight.

 

[kickazz]

A big chunk died tonight.

Lol. A big chunk on a good length outside off for a leftie?

 

[kickazz]

Cummins is a great diplomat but really needs to show some leadership at the toss and briefly criticise the pitch before moving on and not sounding like a big whinger.

 

[PT Bar None]

Might be an unpopular opinion, but I reckon the Indian players would prefer to beat us without the help of the suits. I reckon a few might be disappointed by shenanigans.

We'll see how it plays tomorrow I guess. 3PM AEDT

 

[eddiesmith]

Of course this could be like when Australian pitches get revealed as green and a bowlers paradise yet by game day it’s got no grass left and is an absolute road.

India could be playing mind games.

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

Cummins is a great diplomat but really needs to show some leadership at the toss and briefly criticise the pitch before moving on and not sounding like a big whinger.

No one is going to risk criticising the BCCI.

 

[pjcrows]

The Telstra Dome turf was in better nick in the early 2000s than that absolute abortion of a pitch.