Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #1049 –
Indians are taking the p1ss with the Ranchi pitch... perhaps they should have their test status revoked if they can't produce a decent pitch... oh wait, they all but run the ICC and can do whatever they want...
As for there being a drought, the outfield seems to get enough water to stay green, just doesn't seem to rain in the centre block...
The ICC are spineless, they need to whack the Indian team with penalties for the behaviour of BCCI officials.
FWIW, I've never understood why the ICC, given it stumps up for match officials by the dozen(bus loads of them), can't have a small crew of international curators that arrive at test venues a few weeks before a game and oversee the preparation of the pitch.
The thing is with Indian business culture, there would be a local curator deadset ready to join such a panel for profit and backstab his compatriots, their whole free market system is built on doing the dirty! The only thing you would need to do is make sure he doesn't end up on the take from a Indian bookmaker.