Pitches

The ICC have been thinking about making test cricket more interesting what with day and night matches, test championship, even four day tests etc but what about the tracks on which cricket has been played?


The track at Perth is no more lightning quick, the track at Brisbane does not help the quicker bowlers like it used to, or for the matter the Adelaide track which has always been good for batting but nowadays every batsman thinks that if he plays on the Adelaide track he should get a big score!

The track at Barbados on which England and the Caribbean team played was so flat that the match may not have finished even if they had played for 10 days on it, or even the track at Jamaica has become a lot more flat.

The tracks in subcontinent like Kandy, Karachi, Mohali etc always had something in it for the bowlers but nowadays it is known more for big hundreds.

The track at Basin reserve in NZ was one of the best tracks as it had bounce and a bit of sideways movement but when India played NZ it had nothing in it for the quicker bowlers.

The tracks at Lords and even Headingley have become a lot more batsmen friendly and the pitch at Oval is just a belter.

The South African tracks like Durban still has something in it for the quicker bowlers though the Durban track now has more of a tennis ball bounce rather than the true bounce one used to see in the past.

So let ICC do something about the pitches and things like overrates to make cricket more interesting as without good wickets cricket won't be interesting as one needs to see an even contest between bat and ball.