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Message: [QUOTE="Foordy, post: 3480850, member: 1769"] not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but this most recent test pitch has been officially rated poor by the ICC. not sure why it's the only pitch to receive this rating as every match has finished inside 3 days. [B]Match Referee Chris Broad said in his report:[/B] “The pitch, which was very dry, did not provide a balance between bat and ball, favouring spinners from the start,” Broad said in his report. “The fifth ball of the match broke through the pitch surface and continued to occasionally break the surface providing little or no seam movement and there was excessive and uneven bounce throughout the match.” [B] Harbhajan Singh also slammed the pitch[/B] “You might be (Sachin) Tendulkar, (Jacques) Kallis, Brian Lara or Virat Kohli, even an unknown bowler will dismiss you on this pitch if you play six balls continuously,” Harbhajan told [I]Star Sports[/I]. [B]Indian captain Rohit Sharma is complaining that he's receiving question about the state of the pitch.[/B] “This pitch talk is getting too much. Every time you play in India there’s only focus on the pitch,” “Why are people not asking me about Nathan Lyon and how well he bowled? How well (Cheteshwar) Pujara batted? How well Usman Khawaja played?” Rohit asked. “We focus too much on the pitch here in India and I don’t feel it’s necessary. “Former cricketers, I don’t think they played on pitches like this. These are the kinds of pitches we want to play on, this is our strength. “When you’re playing at your home, always play to your strength. Not worry about what people outside are talking about. Our strength is spin bowling and batting depth. “Everyone uses that advantage as home side, so what’s wrong with that? “We’ve got to do that as well. Especially when we are getting results. If we were not getting the results, I would think otherwise. But we are playing well, getting the results we want.” [B]Sunil Gavaskar whinging that the ICC slapped 3 demerit points on the pitch, [/B] “One thing I would like to know, there was this Test match in November in Brisbane (at the) Gabba, where the match finished in two days. How many demerit points did that pitch get?” [/QUOTE]

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