Is The Indian Cricket Team Cheating By Preparing Pitches To Suit Their Bowlers?
30 November 2009
22 Comments
A friend told me this is cheating and that England did it to Australia in the 70s but stopped because of public outrage but because India contributes so much money to cricket the ICC lets them get away with it.
If you think so, then you will have to blame every country winning the matches in their homes.
Honestly speaking, the boys here are very experienced with the pitches here and England and any other country will have this same advantage if the matches are on their home land.
If Australia and England prepares a bouncy wicket will u call it cheating?
Hell no cause different climate suits different pitches,it is very hard to prepare a bouncy wickets in Subcontinent.So increase ur little cricket knowledge before asking such a nonsense question.
Of course it is. india is famous for it. An indian curator was sacked for refusing to doctor a pitch so the indians would get an advantage. They are cheats.
Why do you say that INDIA is Cheating, they have won the matches with the talent. What if we tell the same that OZ or England are making the pitches as they want.
Its the condition of india which is hot and those pitches are made which help spinner but any team can got profit of it if you had good spinners its not the fault of india that other team does not have great spinners….
Everyone does that so why single out India, have you seen wickets on NZ, they leave so much grass its difficult to make out the pitch from the surrounding square.
Don’t curators try to make the pitch suit the home team? I think they do. It is not cheating, just good tactics but both curator and team.
no, they are cheating by selecting batsman that can actually bat on those atrocious pitches. Cheats.
I think that it is not easy in india to make a bounce pitch & we should not forget that we should have our home advantage
its hard to make bowling wickets here and yeah we are the ruling country now and we can get away with anything so just suck it up
edit: yeah people it is home advantage as all of you are saying ,and its not cheating and you are also telling me that england have a poor record in the ashes just because they are too nice
Well, I’m not going to say you are wrong.
EDIT: Different climes will produce different pitches, that is not a problem. It is a problem when the curator for the third test said in the press he had prepared the pitch especially for Kumble. That is cheating. Had he said the pitch would suit the spinners then thats OK because both teams had spinners but he said it was prepared for a specific bowler. That is wrong.
No, this is a misconception.
As a matter of fact, the little green grass on the field, in addition to the dew factor, prompted the England Team to put India to bat.
Also, i think there was a time when Flintoff had bowled 6 overs for 19 runs, due to his tight bowling.
However, Indian batting was really fearless and talented to make his final tally to 67 runs in 10 overs.
KP and Bopara showed that the pitch was equally good for them as well.
The statement that India contributes a lot of money to cricket and so ICC lets them get away with it, is not reasonable, to say everything about it,
kreja was able to get more spin than Indian spinners ,he got 12 wickets in his debut match ,
ishant sharma was higest wicket taker in the series ,he is a fast bowler,so there is no excuse that these pitches suited only for slow bowlers ,Aussies have four fast bowlers
sub continent pitches are batsman friendly,be it Pakistan or india or srilanka
to be frank kp has underestimate indian bowling and batting attack,his last series was against south africa,and england win 99% matches at home and 1 % away
a friend told you? is he working in bcci or what
Home advantage is not cheating. Moreover, preparation depends on the climatic and weather conditions prevailing, soil etc.
If this amounts to cheating, then why Aussies always play their first test from the sub continent at Perth? It is take home advantage. India is the only country (after the Sydney episode) to beat Australia at Perth.
Home advantage is fine upto a certain point but India has taken things to a new level. In Australia, the tracks in Adelaide & Sydney is very sporting & suits all teams. Maybe Melbourne track is in favour or Australia. But in India, the tracks on almost every ground turns square from Day 1. Its breaks up from the 3rd day. I would say that’s unfair & amounts to cheating. Atleast a few tracks should be sporting.
I guess money does talk!! Doesnt it?
That’s not cheating, that’s home advantage(although it could be unfair on opponents)…….the kind of soil and the conditions makes them to suit Indian style of play,its hard to prepare a sporting wicket……….but it can also backfire…..remember the 1996 semi-final between India and SriLanka?
Edit:
Bill P,I would disagree with you on this because during the Ind-Aus tour, I think it was either Adelaide or Sydney if I could remember correctly, the curator of that pitch told the wicket was suited for Sachin Tendulkar…..why don’t you consider that as cheating…..its the choice of the curator…..it would be very difficult for a curator to make a pitch only for a particular player….so while he makes the wicket he feels that it would suit a particular bowler and NOT designed for that bowler
In the end Kumble did not strike……its ultimately the individual effort
Some will argue it is home advantage.
yeah its been happening for a while but nothing has been done to stop it.
its just been “swept under the rug”
It is not correct as players are now a days play in any condition
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
every country do the same..
its not called cheating
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