Re: The Third Test in the Ashes Series - WACA (14 December)
Reply #152 –
David Sandurski resigned from the MCG on the 17th of Nov and took up the GABBA job. But he basically prepared all this seasons drop in pitches.
He will be replaced by Matthew Page who is moving across from the WACA after the ground hosted it's last match. So the expectation is that next years pitches will be completely different.
The issue I see is that pitches are losing their character and are becoming more or less the same. The WACA isn't the feared wicket for touring sides it once was, the GABA has lost it's first session 'juice' that used to give the bowlers assistance and as for the MCG wicket, well lets just say it gave nothing to anyone and ruined one of the great cricket occasions of the year. Drop in pitches make a lot of sense from a logistics point of view but we run the risk of ruining test cricket if we're not careful.