(11-23-2017, 02:49 AM)crashlander link Wrote:Those who claim 'everybody' doctors pitches to benefit their side have obviously not batted much in Australia. In recent years we have dealt up a LOT of roads, some of them real Freeways. Maybe they are worried we might find a batsman?
Producing roads doesn't produce batsmen.
FFS, we have a country full of drop in pitches that might as well be self-leveling teflon filled concrete, no deviation, no uneven bounce, and no variation from venue to venue, yet most of the spuds still cannot make runs!
From what I can tell early in the Shield season the curators offered up some pitches with life in them and our countries best batting stocks turn to pudding faces, almost as quickly as the Scott brothers when the opposition get a free kick! Shield teams were all out for not much!
Are we are suffering from having too many batsmen involved in the running cricket around the country?
Give them some real pitches, pitches they have to work hard on to get runs, not the 20/20 batting surfaces that currently get served up, and we will really cut the men from the boys!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"