Tuesday, May 03, 2005

What A Farce

As expected on the pathetic wicket at Antigua, test match cricket continues to be a farce. 9 of the South Africans have bowled so far and seems like Gibbs and Boucher will complete the quota soon. In 2002, India had also bowled all 11 bowlers. The only thing that is making this Test match interesting is some of the snippets on the commentary on Cricinfo:


Boucher to bowl, and yes he does take the hat off, remembers to
give the umpire his sunglasses
Has never even bowled in a first class match
Even measured out a run-up



232.6 Prince to Bravo, no run, another change, defends down the pitch
232.5 Prince to Bravo, no run, defends to the off
232.4 Prince to Bravo, no run, major change, defends to the off
232.3 Prince to Bravo, no run, defends to the on side
232.2 Prince to Bravo, no run, defends to the on side
232.1 Prince to Bravo, no run, defends to the on side



Can anyone out there gives us any indication what the point is of
this Test continuing, apart from that the ICC says it must


And while the "experts" were so eager and quick to lambast the wicket in Mumbai last year which produced a fantastically entertaining 2-day Test, they will sit quietly now and keep applauding the eight hundreds that have been scored. Really !!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

boring boring boring bullhit.Gives our batsman confidence but otherwise totally pointless. Maybe there should be a international pitch inspector and denies certain grounds test matches. But i think the best cricket is on bouncy hard pitches when skill at pace is required