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HEADLINE: This is a Horrendous Pitch

 
CaribbeanCricket.com Nov 27, 2006, 9:38:02 AM 

Pakistan tour diary by CHRIS GAYLE

The first day of the third and final Test match against Pakistan in Karachi was a pretty good day for the West Indies. The pitch is horrendous for Test cricket because of the extremely slowness and lowness of it.

It is the worst Test pitch I have ever seen so far in my career because the ball was almost rolling on the very first day of the Test match. Full Story

 
gvenkat Nov 27, 2006, 9:43:45 AM 

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Ok!! Excuse Given already... I will be surprised if windies come anywhere close to 257.. :roll: :roll:

 
Surya Nov 27, 2006, 9:44:25 AM 

In reply to gvenkat
Exactly my thoughts..

 
gvenkat Nov 27, 2006, 9:51:17 AM 

In reply to Surya

It was a bad toss to lose. Karachi has the history of whoever bats first wins.. even if they score low... remember the last Ind-pak test here :evil:

 
Toney Nov 27, 2006, 10:02:56 AM 

In reply to gvenkat

[quote="Gayle"]Mommy I am missing you!/quote]

If the man is missing his mommy, how the rass are yuh expecting him fi mek runs.

 
Dukes Nov 27, 2006, 10:16:45 AM 

Hats off to Onry fuh dat last line bout Mommy I am missing you.
Dat line is guaranteed to get Onry nuff pu55y!!!!All dem gyal pon Molynes and Constant Spring Road ah seh what a nice guy eeh,him love him modda cyan done!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Trus de I,me know wuh me ah talk bout.
GO THRU ONRY!!!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 
gvenkat Nov 27, 2006, 10:22:03 AM 

In reply to Toney

Agreed family is important...But they are lucky to have such a life so they better perform than missing mommy... wink

 
Arawak Nov 27, 2006, 10:37:17 AM 

This sounds like the kind of pitch that Ganga can do well on.

Arawak

 
jk2s Nov 27, 2006, 10:42:06 AM 

In reply to Arawak

when bowling :)

 
jcveletta Nov 27, 2006, 10:49:54 AM 

In reply to Arawak

his name is Spaul...he grew up on this....look out for the Tiget tonight.

 
gvenkat Nov 27, 2006, 10:53:21 AM 

In reply to jcveletta

The name is Paul, Chander Paul :lol: :lol:

 
dcbreds Nov 27, 2006, 10:54:27 AM 

The wicket was seaming. They were bowling too short. Whenever the Pakistanis received a ball pitched on a good length, they were in big trouble. Yousuf had a close LBW appeal to a good length ball of Collymore (I think) before he finally succumbed to a similar length ball that was hitting middle.

We did/do not need Tadpole. What we needed was disciplined bowling and good fielding AND keeping. Yousuf showed that front foot play is the order of the day on this wicket.

 
zimzimma Nov 27, 2006, 10:59:04 AM 

In reply to dcbreds

They bowled many many loose deliveries and gave away too many boundaries, so for them to have gotten so many qickets for so few runs probably means that the pitch isn't that great for batting. Disciplined bowling and catching would have seen Pakistan all out already.

 
gvenkat Nov 27, 2006, 11:02:04 AM 

In reply to zimzimma

I wonder what these commies manjrekar and dujon where laughing at when they were whining and bitching about flat tracks... no man living or dead can ever predict the nature of a pitch... it's like a woman's mind :wink: :wink:

 
buds Nov 27, 2006, 11:28:27 AM 

Big up to Onry for acknowledging his MOM: I hope U **sholes do not miss her when she gone.

Family is important.

 
zimzimma Nov 27, 2006, 11:29:32 AM 

In reply to buds

Big up to Onry yes. That yute is the backbone of his family. God must bless him for what he has done and continues to do for his parents, brothers and sisters, neices and nephews too.

 
buds Nov 27, 2006, 11:34:28 AM 

In reply to zimzimma

True Zimma..Nuff respect fi days.

 
anandgb Nov 27, 2006, 11:36:35 AM 

In reply to zimzimma Family is always important

 
crapaud Nov 27, 2006, 11:39:07 AM 

Oh dear... This means that Pak already have a winning total on the board. We may not make many runs.

 
rock28 Nov 27, 2006, 12:36:49 PM 

In reply to :D :D :D

 
Runs Nov 27, 2006, 12:41:30 PM 

In reply to gvenkat Sanjay Manjrekar pursued technical perfection like a man obsessed, but for a batsman hailed as the next Sunil Gavaskar, he ended up with a career that was largely unrealised. Though he never saw his father Vijay bat, those who did couldn't help commenting that the technical rectitude was inherited. His century against a four-prong West Indian pace attack at Bridgetown in 1988-89 was masterful, and he followed it up with a double and single century in Pakistan. But he only managed one other century - a laboured if match-saving effort in Zimbabwe's inaugural Test. He struggled to find his rhythm and form on bouncy pitches in Australia and South Africa, and never recaptured that poise and balance. Manjrekar made an unsuccessful attempt at reinventing himself as an opener in 1997, and faded out of the international scene. He kept wicket occasionally, and often regaled team-mates with his singing. He now works as a television commentator and media pundit.

Sambit Bal (June 28, 2004)

 
cricket_jumbie Nov 27, 2006, 1:11:22 PM 

In reply to gvenkat

It was a bad toss to lose. Karachi has the history of whoever bats first wins.. even if they score low...
B U L L S H ! T!!!

of the 38 matches played at karachi to date, pak has won 20, lost 1 and drawn 17.

the team batting second has a better won/loss record.

battfing first, the record is:
P-W-L-T

5-4-1-0

Second:
-P -W-L-T
16-16-0-0




 
gvenkat Nov 27, 2006, 2:47:54 PM 

In reply to Runs



He now works as a television commentator and media pundit.


atleast he thinks he is a media pubdit...

 
hewesleyb Nov 27, 2006, 3:43:12 PM 

In reply to Arawak I was thinking the same thing earlier today. He plays well forward this should serve him well as long as he plays the correct line. This pitch could see some LBWs dismissals in the coming days.

Wesley

 
Chrissy Nov 27, 2006, 4:30:36 PM 

In reply to Dukes
Yep I loved dat last line
:lol:

 
Catsanus Nov 27, 2006, 6:44:09 PM 

Gayle's just foxin...now when he comes out and peels off 200 he's gonna look like a champion...on that hurrendous pitch and all...

 
Big_Mac Nov 28, 2006, 7:33:33 AM 

Poor batsmen, it's not enough that bats get more and more powerful, boundaries get smaller and smaller, they get more pads and helmets than ever before and pitches are covered. Why shouldn't they all get to bat on completely flat tracks as well? It's just not fair that they should actually have to prove their ability on pitches that challenge them.

 
googley Nov 28, 2006, 7:35:20 AM 

de last time a senior WI player bad mouth the pitch, WI lost big time.

looks like its about to happen again! :lol: :lol:

(ah hope i am wrong!)

 
Surya Nov 28, 2006, 7:35:52 AM 

In reply to Catsanus

now when he comes out and peels off 200 he's gonna look like a champion

But compromises the team cause when he gets only 20% of the above mentioned figure :roll: