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The 'Doctored' Sri Lankan Pitch.

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Loved it to be honest. Hate watching flat tracks where there's nothing in it for the bowlers. Keeps you on edge.
 
I think though this pitch was taking things a bit too far in that pitches should aim for four days play. I am however all for pitches that suit home teams. That is the point of Test cricket; to play in different conditions which is why it annoys me to no end when people complain about "dust bowls" but have no problems with green pitches.

I also am a fan of different balls being used. You have the SG. Duke and Kookaburra. I assume the SG was being used in Sri Lanka?
 

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Im all for pitches with some life, but the line between a bowler friendly pitch and a plain bad one is pretty clear.

The lack of a great or even good test spinner on either side probably helped the game go further than it should have.

If murali was playing it may have been over in two days.
 
Im all for pitches with some life, but the line between a bowler friendly pitch and a plain bad one is pretty clear.

The lack of a great or even good test spinner on either side probably helped the game go further than it should have.

If murali was playing it may have been over in two days.

To be fair Australia have alway's had Murali's (and Sri Lanka's) measure in Tests.

Well done to the curators in providing a challenging wicket. All to rare in today's cricket. 4 day cricket is usually good to watch!

Sri Lanka ultimately threw their wickets away in that first innings. It wasn't the the biggest minefield i've ever seen as shown by Hussey and Jayawardene.
 

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What an absolute joke.

Instead of critisising pitches that get a result, maybe they should be looking into pitches that see batsman dominate for the whole 5 days. That just %^&*es me off.
 
Every test match in the world should be played on a bouncy WACA pitch.

NOTHING comes near it.

As for the Sri Lankans, they've been doing that stuff for years. Stuff 'em!
 
chris broad rated the pitch as poor standard

Like that's a surprise. It's understandable why so many of the S/C fans don't rate him.

I thought it made for an excellent test match and considering some of the really poor get-out shots, you just can't blame the pitch.

Should a green seamer's pitch be reported as helping whoever wins the toss too much?

The pitch didn't deteriorate much if it had, I can the ref's point but it actually held up pretty much. If it hadn't, a batsman would have been able to score a ton on the fourth day.

The Aussie batsmen having a whinge about it didn't help.
 
Every test match in the world should be played on a bouncy WACA pitch.

NOTHING comes near it.

As for the Sri Lankans, they've been doing that stuff for years. Stuff 'em!

is it not the ICC who are having the whinge?

Besides 14-1 record out of 21 versus Sri Lanka. It think's it's fair to say we don't mind playing them regardless of the pitch.
 

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I was def. expecting it to crumble more. the pitch on day 1-2-3 was more or less fine. could have been better obv. but the lack of deterioration is terrible and caught me by surprise (and given how much you and i talked about how crappy SSC is I don't know when it caught me by surprise)
 

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