MCG wicket

[jiphoc]

If this gets served up on Boxing Day could be be saying goodbye to the drop in wicket?

 

[Numero Uno]

laughable that the Vics may get to share the points from the game

 

[footyfan1978]

If this gets served up on Boxing Day could be be saying goodbye to the drop in wicket?

one could only hope...

 

[Tugga27]

laughable that the Vics may get to share the points from the game

There's no "may"about it.

They already have.

 

[footyfan1978]

laughable that the Vics may get to share the points from the game

typical, want the whole points as cannot handle a bit of life in the pitch...lol... sooky sandgroper

 

[Numero Uno]

typical, want the whole points as cannot handle a bit of life in the pitch...lol... sooky sandgroper

ok sure you cling to that lie if it makes you feel better

 

[RickSanchez]

Move it to the park across the road from me, bet I'll still be too lazy to go watch

 

[Richard Pryor]

You should have seen it in the early 80's. Was worse.

I have a random book by Greg Chappell from the 80's, from memory he spends a very sizable amount of it shitting on the MCG pitch

 

[footyfan1978]

I have a random book by Greg Chappell from the 80's, from memory he spends a very sizable amount of it shitting on the MCG pitch

and then for good measure tells his younger brother to roll the ball across the pitch...lol

 

[bh90210fan]

Drop ins have been a disaster in Melbourne and Sydney forever now. The best solution to providing some decent matches might be to play day night matches or using duke balls

 

[LFC2010]

laughable that the Vics may get to share the points from the game

even more laughable they may get to have this match re scheduled.

if they can't produce a wicket at the G tough bloody luck.

 

[Gavin Excell]

There’s a line between difficult and dangerous, and this wicket crossed it.

Deeply embarrassing for the new curator who has clearly over-compensated after the “boring” criticisms. If they send people home at lunchtime on Boxing Day, there will be big trouble!

You wonder how the curator keeps his job to be honest

Its a pretty spectacular failure to have the game abandoned particularly when you look out the window and its such a glorious day.

 

[big_e]

Drop ins have been a disaster in Melbourne and Sydney forever now. The best solution to providing some decent matches might be to play day night matches or using duke balls

SCG doesn't have one.

Adelaide and Perth Stadium do and they go alright.

There's nothing inherently wrong with drop-in wickets.

 

[Admiral Byng]

If this gets served up on Boxing Day could be be saying goodbye to the drop in wicket?

There is absolutely no chance of this type of wicket being served up for the Boxing day test. I think the curator was experimenting with this pitch to make it livelier than usual, but just totally overcompensated. The test pitch will be back to dull and boring.

 

[Pippen94]

SCG doesn't have one.

Adelaide and Perth Stadium do and they go alright.

There's nothing inherently wrong with drop-in wickets.

That's the official line, but wickets have been bland since their emergence.

 

[Gough]

Makes the case for drop ins in Sydney that bit harder to argue so at least something has come of this.

 

[Gough]

Good cliffs from Cricinfo.

From 'poor' ICC rating to match abandoned: timeline of a troubled MCG pitch

A difficult two years for the MCG pitch has continued with a Sheffield Shield match abandoned

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[big_e]

That's the official line, but wickets have been bland since their emergence.

Drop in pitches have been around for 40 years.

Whenever there is a bad drop in pitch, it's blamed on the fact it is a drop in, but when there is a good drop in pitch - Optus last year, for instance - no-one says it is because it is a drop in.

And when a non-drop in pitch is bad, no one says it is because it is a traditional wicket. And there are plenty of terrible traditional wickets around the world.

 

[Gough]

Drop in pitches have been around for 40 years.

Whenever there is a bad drop in pitch, it's blamed on the fact it is a drop in, but when there is a good drop in pitch - Optus last year, for instance - no-one says it is because it is a drop in.

And when a non-drop in pitch is bad, no one says it is because it is a traditional wicket. And there are plenty of terrible traditional wickets around the world.

Five day pitch and a forty over pitch are pretty different creatures.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Drop in pitches have been around for 40 years.

Isn't that what brought helmets into the game, during WSC?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

If this gets served up on Boxing Day could be be saying goodbye to the drop in wicket?

No chance. The AFL holds too much power.
If that gets served up in Boxing Day, Kardinia Park could be hosting the Boxing Day Test in 2020.
Its hard to believe that will happen though, more likely the pitch will be the normal bland we expect from Melbourne pitches. If it was softness causing the issues, getting excess moisture out over a warm 2.5 weeks should not be too hard.

 

[Barlos Crathwaite]

Imagine comparing Bradman, a bloke who retired from international cricket in 1948, to today's international cricketers.

Don Bradman would be sh**ting his pants at the crease watching starc steaming in at him. He wouldn't score a run in today's game

 

[Gavin Excell]

Don Bradman would be sh**ting his pants at the crease watching starc steaming in at him. He wouldn't score a run in today's game

What BS

 

[Barlos Crathwaite]

What BS

Little don Bradman was 5 foot nothing and never faced pace beyond what most social players bowl at. He'd have no chance these days

 

[Gough]

No chance. The AFL holds too much power.
If that gets served up in Boxing Day, Kardinia Park could be hosting the Boxing Day Test in 2020.
Its hard to believe that will happen though, more likely the pitch will be the normal bland we expect from Melbourne pitches. If it was softness causing the issues, getting excess moisture out over a warm 2.5 weeks should not be too hard.

Forecast rain all this week which is unfortunate timing.