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Aussie legend backs controversial pitch calls - CtrlF.XYZ

Aussie legend backs controversial pitch calls

2 years ago 115

For conscionable the 2nd clip ever a Test lucifer successful Australia has been settled wrong 2 days, but erstwhile Australian skipper Mark Taylor said that bowler-friendly wickets person a large spot successful the aboriginal of the format.

"There's nary uncertainty the transportation had excessively overmuch successful it," helium told Wide World of Sports.

"You can't person a two-day Test and accidental that the transportation is simply a bully one, but I volition accidental that I bash similar the information that the groundsmen are leaving a spot much writer connected them.

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Scores of 300, oregon adjacent 400 person been commonplace astatine the Gabba successful caller summers of cricket, with the batter-friendly conditions connected afloat display.

Not anymore.

"I deliberation Test lucifer cricket should beryllium much astir the bowlers, and it's overmuch much absorbing erstwhile they're successful the game. I don't similar scores of 500 versus 400, which we had excessively overmuch of for a mates of decades," Taylor said.

"On this occasion, the groundsman conscionable near excessively overmuch successful it, and it was truly tough. The transportation conscionable hardened up a spot contiguous and it was inactive moving disconnected the seam truthful batting was very, precise difficult, arsenic you could see."

The erstwhile opening bat said that helium wouldn't beryllium against an adjacent much drastic overhaul successful Test matches.

"You don't needfully privation two-day matches, but I've been saying for a portion I deliberation we should see four-day matches, wherever you tin permission much writer connected the pitches, and if you hap to get a level one, you enactment the onus backmost connected the captains to beryllium a spot much courageous with their decision-making."

Instead of a mates much days of action, the Proteas volition present get much than a week disconnected earlier looking to bounce backmost astatine the MCG.

But whereas successful the past they could thin connected the likes of a Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers oregon Faf du Plessis, it's a comparatively caller radical of players.

"It was a precise inexperienced line-up, but connected a transportation similar that - it's precise tough," Taylor said.

"Looking astatine [Temba] Bavuma, I deliberation he's improved arsenic a batsman from what I've seen a fewer years ago, and [Sarel] Erwee, the opening bat - helium didn't marque immoderate runs but helium looks a decent subordinate to me, helium looks similar helium has the technique that tin prosper successful this game.

"Obviously Melbourne and Sydney volition beryllium much batter friendly, truthful it'll beryllium absorbing to spot however they go."

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