It's been that way forever.
You made this thread now? Abh hosh ai hai?
Why not make spinner friendly surfaces. Pakistan may lose a match but will still play spin better than touring SENA teams and win more
You are too young to remember the pitches Pakistan have always produced.
But Pakistan doesn't have those fast bowlers anymore to make a match out of this kinda surfaces. If you had the bowlers of past, this would have been fine.
Pakistan is losing non stop that is the point. If they were winning than we can understand but even after losing they haven't learnt any lesson.
It's difficult for curators to produce balanced wickets here.
Wasn't Pakistan produce supporting wickets against South Africa if im not wrong .
How is this related to Rizwan ? This is only about pitches
More of both batting sides being extremely average than balanced pitches.
Please don't base it on domestic cricket, as the pitches have been terrible in terms of leaving sizable amount of grass on the wicket to make medium pacers much better than they usually are. Those same medium pacers are not struggling since 2021, when the pitches have started to resemble traditional Pakistani pitches even in domestic cricket.
This is the problem.
Yes, Pakistan relysing on reverse stopped as soon as nuetral umpires came, but pitches were not this dead. Last few series, it seems super dead.
Nothing, just that you were praising rizwan but now that he gets out on a 0, it's complaints. Where was this thread against Bangladesh?
Oh, ok. But I think there is difference between super dead pitches and just pitches with low bounce which break on 4th/5th day. I think it's gone extreme in recent few series.
If Sehwag had played against this attack he would have crossed 500 easily. Last time he plaeyd he made 309 at Multan.
Root should play in pakistan more, Sachin record would get broken instantly
Sehwag has such knocks even on rank turners and agaisnt ATG bowlers so I won't really read much into what he did. I am not saying that pitches were not dull in Pakistan in past, but I think it's gone extreme.
Root is already proved that he doesn't needs flat pitch to score runs.
Bhai, I was joking.
I'm predicting a pak collapse on day 5
Pak collapse is definitely on the cards in the 2nd innings which average bowlers like Bashir getting a fifer
England will be batting on day 5.
Depends on how England approach it. Do they wanna bazzball or slow burn pakistan till day 4( Let's face it, Pak isn't bowling them out before they reach 500)
Bazballing is a much easier gig here than defending. You can plonk your frontfoot and hit through the line.
Why aren't our batters doing it?
An age old problem. They may need to be relaid but maybe the knowledge isn't there. All I know is that Andy Atkinson produced 2 excellent wickets against SA in 2004. A series we won
Ramiz tried to do something about it. For better or for worst it did worked - or maybe not. It's one of the biggest mysteries around Pakistan Cricket right now.
Two white-ball series against Zimbabwe in November. It's gonna be stat pad city for the kingTo help the generational talent, the true king of world cricket, the oozer of charm, the padder of stats, the one and only king Bob to re-establish himself as the best flat pitch run scoring machine.
Flat pitches and second grade bowlers not working. Time to invite Zimbabwe and Nepal.
What did he do? He made them flatter than ever!
Shoaib never did. He got out before reaching 250. That Test match was something though. Cook basically outbatted Malik and England felt few runs short because of bad light while chasing.
Yeah your right, I was under the impression he scored 300 and retired a couple of games later. But that pitch was one of the worst I have ever seen when it comes to flatness and now this one.
Yes that game had lower scores and both teams were bowled out 2 times.
Tony Hemming was the curator of Dubai stadium
This. It's good for white ball cricket. All Asian countries are.
You can't keepmpriducing pitches like this and expect spectators to turn up for a snooze fest. And don't dilute it by saying all asian countries.
Credit goes to Ramiz Raja, he tried to replicate Aussie pitches and did worse to what we had
season maybe. what tiem of year was it
