excludes no result matches including wash-outs

excludes no result matches including wash-outs, terrorist attacks

While this is slightly old news for some and alarming for some, what has started the debate all over was India’s decision to ‘doctor’ the pitches – matches ended in 3 days instead of the 5 days that Tests are supposed to go on for. Wickets tumbled left, right and center, and even the part-timers from South Africa seemed spin wizards for those brief 72 hours. The troupe of retired Aussie cricketers had quite a bit to say on the Nagpur pitch, which turned a dustbowl in 3 days. Hayden wanted a contest between bat and ball – which is what we all want as well, except probably Ravi Shastri.

Not complaining just questioning the balance of ball v bat which in my opinion Nagpur got wrong. Want more than 2ds https://t.co/HZAy8nFrge — Matthew Hayden AM (@HaydosTweets) November 28, 2015

Every home side tailors pitches for their own team. But then we seem to be taking things too far too often.