England's tour of India - 2021

[wasteyouryouth]

Some more ridiculous umpiring.

 

[blockerdave]

I played more of a shot at that ball than the batsman

 

[Crassus]

Well this test has confirmed that India really didn't take kindly to being hammered in the first test. The pitch has been a shocker and the umpires have been village standard. If I didn't know any better I'd think they had been instructed to give us nothing.

No wonder they don't tend to lose series at home.

 

[Bevab]

Said this during the first bubble tour but non-neutral umpires are really not going to cut it.

 

[LiveLoveABD]

That Rishabh Pant fellow really needs to improve his wicket keeping!

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Said this during the first bubble tour but non-neutral umpires are really not going to cut it.

Until this test match I've not seen a problem in those I've watched. It's just bad umpiring.

The non-shot LBW is a poor decision made even worse by the fact that Joe Root isn't told/can't ask if the umpire considers a shot has been played.

 

[CerealKiller]

Jonathan Agnew is raging.

"You have got to be honest and say if this match was staged anywhere else in the world the ICC would be crawling all over it and Chennai would be taken off the hosting list. This is not a pitch Test cricket should be played on. It is a lottery. It is disappointing. It is not an advert for Test cricket."

"I am sure Axar Patel is a very nice chap. He looks a decent steady left-arm bowler. The fact he puts no revolutions on the ball and it is turning square probably tells you everything you need to know about this pitch.

We love Test cricket. There is no point playing it on pitches like this."

Moeen Ali turned it a lot to bowl Kohli through the gate too. Too bad the English spinners aren’t good enough to do it as consistently as Ashwin does. Just like the Pakistani pacers weren’t good enough in England last summer. And the home team's batsmen knew how to handle the conditions better than the away team's batsmen, just like in this match.
The subtext to these rants seems to be that whatever the English consider to be a good pitch has to be prepared wherever they go. Whatever is considered a standard Test pitch in Asia is not good enough, because it’s too hard for visiting batsmen. No one complains about lush green seaming pitches when Asian teams go outside Asia, and rightly so. That’s the challenge of playing overseas.
There's the laughable argument that it doesn’t seam square on green pitches, but it spins square on turning pitches, so the latter are more unfair to the batsmen. That’s because a ball seaming a little bit is bowled at a much higher pace than a ball turning square. They’re equally hard to play.
Shane bloody Warne is making more sense than English pundits right now.

 

[LiveLoveABD]

Until this test match I've not seen a problem in those I've watched. It's just bad umpiring.

The non-shot LBW is a poor decision made even worse by the fact that Joe Root isn't told/can't ask if the umpire considers a shot has been played.

The umpires seem to almost not know the protocols. It's one thing to be under pressure and make the wrong decision but in this test they seem either asleep or clueless as to what's going on.

 

[CerealKiller]

Well this test has confirmed that India really didn't take kindly to being hammered in the first test. The pitch has been a shocker and the umpires have been village standard. If I didn't know any better I'd think they had been instructed to give us nothing.

No wonder they don't tend to lose series at home.

How dare they try to take advantage of home conditions and put the English batsmen in a hard spot.
The umpiring is extremely poor, but keep the conspiracies in your head. They don’t tend to lose series at home because they have world class spinners and batsmen who can play spin.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Anil Chaudhary is a legend

He will be under the pump and this could well be his last series as an International umpire.

On the contrary the on field umpires have been good especially Nitin Menon some of his decision were spot on on a turning track.

 

[LiveLoveABD]

Must appreciate the English fans and cricketers for being so classy and civil through the shockers!

 

[Yash.]

Exactly the point @CerealKiller stated, when New Zealand or England make absolutely green pitches in which you can't seperate the pitch from the ground, no one bats an eye. Just as the pitch is a turning track, everyone loses their minds.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

The subtext to these rants seems to be that whatever the English consider to be a good pitch has to be prepared wherever they go.

Agree with this. We revel in it when Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad tear through batting lineups on home soil.

I still don't think it's a good pitch when it's breaking up on day one. But also, Ebony Rainford-Brent on Channel 4 said: India have been better at batting and bowling, which is true.

I don't anything would be done even if this pitch was deemed to be terrible because it's an Indian pitch. But Aggers wouldn't start demanding Lord's should be sanctioned for producing a 2 1/2 days pitch. Although atmospheric conditions and weather play a bigger part in England and that can't be controlled.

 

[Velocity]

Just like England used the conditions in the first game by piling up runs in the first innings then bowling out India on a deteriorating Day 4/5 pitch, India have also used the conditions to their advantage in this match by putting up a decent total on this pitch and bowling England out cheaply. Funny how the moment you get outplayed on spinning track overseas, people start to complain and whine about the pitch.

It's not like the pitch is unplayable. India posted 329 in the first innings, a decent first innings total anywhere in the world. Ashwin is too good at home and the English batsmen didn't apply themselves well enough to put a substantial score on the board. It may have not been a perfect pitch if its spinning from Day 1, but if a team can bat on it and make a good score, then its perfectly playable and the other team just didn't bat well enough as their counterparts.

 

[CerealKiller]

Agree with this. We revel in it when Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad tear through batting lineups on home soil.

I still don't think it's a good pitch when it's breaking up on day one. But also, Ebony Rainford-Brent on Channel 4 said: India have been better at batting and bowling, which is true.

I don't anything would be done even if this pitch was deemed to be terrible because it's an Indian pitch. But Aggers wouldn't start demanding Lord's should be sanctioned for producing a 2 1/2 days pitch. Although atmospheric conditions and weather play a bigger part in England and that can't be controlled.

Again, i'd point out that a pitch that seams throughout the match and one that spins throughout the match, from the first to the last ball, are equally as hard to bat on in my view, as long as the bounce is not uneven. It’s just that the home team's batsmen have more skill. Kyle Jamieson was unplayable for our batsmen in New Zealand a couple months ago, but their batsmen looked comfortable on the same tracks.