The Pakistan cricket could up being in more trouble than before as the investigating committee over their debacle in Australia has recommended some really harsh penalties and fines for some of the players. The recommendations have been sent to the PCB chief Ejaz Butt, who has now to take decision for the same.
Virender Sehwag’s statements about how he did not rate the Bangladeshi bowlers too much almost backfired on the first day of the first Test match at Chittagong as they lost eight wickets in 63 overs scoring only 200 odd runs.
The Kotla controversy refuses to die down. Only a couple of days after the game at the Feroz Shah Kotla was abandoned due to an unfit pitch, there have been contrasting views that have come out from the different stakeholders of the game.
As if to prove that the Green Park wicket in Kanpur will not be left behind to Motera in Ahmedabad, in dishing out tracks that afford nothing to the bowlers, and conversely everything for the batsmen, more than 400 runs were scored on the first day of the second test match between India and Sri Lanka. That Sri Lanka managed to scalp two wickets was a big enough relief but there was nothing more for the fielding side to cheer for.
India will go into the fifth and the final day of the first test match against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad, 144 runs behind and with eight wickets still standing. And with the pitch playing the manner in which it is, the prospects of a result look very remote.
Pitch tampering is nothing but running onto the bowlers landing area. This helps to generate all of a sudden reverse swinging.
Test cricket has provided many instances of pitch tampering by both batsmen and bowlers.
On 21 November 2005, Shahid Afridi was banned for a Test match and two one-day internationals for deliberately damaging the pitch in [...]