Excuses? You're the one suggesting a pitch should be fined for excessive swing after watching some pretty standard swing in the first hour of the first day of a test match simply because it's green and because your own horrid pitch was fined spitting and turning with variable bounce on day 1.
A green pitch does not automatically equal excessive swing.
Ah "your own horrid pitch" lol ... my post clearly touched a nerve.
First of all I dont own any pitches and consequently didn't have to pay any fines. I also don't remember any horrid pitches being used during the SA tour to India, but the spineless batting from the SA batsmen all through the series, was definitely one of the most horrid I have seen in a while. Horrid pitches are horrid for both sides, so how is that one side was able to so consistently bash the other on the same 'horrid pitches'?
Also, your appalling pitch knowledge amazes me. Just how clueless are you about the nature of pitches. What is a green pitch meant for - think, think you will get there, think ... yes to aid seam movement off the pitch. The fact that you associate a green pitch with 'excessive swing' (highlighted the relevant parts of your quote in bold) ... shows how utterly clueless and ignorant you are about pitches to begin with. A green pitch doesn't aid swing, it does aid seam movement off the pitch. The more the grass the more the seam movement is helped. Seam movement off the pitch and swing are two different things.
That Hamilton pitch is green with, G-R-E-E-N, and green on the extreme side. The more extreme the pitch movement the more extreme the seam movement is going to be, if used correctly by the seam bowlers. Its the same as an extremely dry pitch, which if used correctly by the spinners will prove excessive spin.
That Hamilton pitch is definitely on the extreme green side and aimed to provide extreme help to the seam bowlers, and thus a poor pitch. If the seam bowlers are too fking inept at making use of the greenest pitch of the decade, then that doesn't make the pitch great. Same with a dry wicket, if the spinners don't bowl the right areas and keep bowling long hops on the pitch, it wouldn't make the pitch a batting paradise.
The point is not to lambast this pitch. The point is to show people react extreme to wickets designed to assist spin, but are perfectly fine with rubbish green wickets like the one in Hamilton. In fact like you are doing would go to any extent to even defend extreme green pitches, and even make excuses for that wicket. Both kinds of wickets are welcome as far as I go. The bashing that Asian pitches get, either flat or spin, is amusing to see especially when flat or seam friendly wickets, outside Asia have excuses made for them.
However its okay, don't try too hard, all this is probably rocket science to someone who can't even tell the difference between a ball swinging in a air, and a ball seaming off the wicket after pitching, and just what conditions aid which.
So you get back to what you know best - spinning wickets are ugly, green wickets are lovely.
