Gabba monster cops grim rating after carnage

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The International Cricket Council has deed the Gabba with a grim transportation standing aft the archetypal Test betwixt Australia and South Africa ended successful little than 2 days, judging the wicket beneath average.

In a Test that ended conscionable aft beverage connected time two, South Africa was skittled for 152 and 99, portion Australia stumbled to 218 earlier losing 4 wickets successful a palmy fourth-innings pursuit of 34 runs.

Thirty-four wickets fell and lone 2 batters, Australia's Travis Head and South Africa's Kyle Verreynne, reached 50, arsenic an utmost furniture of writer wreaked havoc.

Only erstwhile earlier had a Test successful Australia finished wrong 2 days, when Sir Donald Bradman and Bert Ironmonger humiliated the West Indies astatine the MCG successful 1931.

After each Test, the ICC rates the transportation and outfield precise good, good, average, beneath average, mediocre oregon unfit.

"Overall, the Gabba transportation for this Test lucifer was excessively overmuch successful favour of the bowlers," said lucifer referee Richie Richardson.

"There was other bounce and occasional excessive seam movement.

"The unusual transportation besides kept debased connected the 2nd day, making it precise hard for batters to physique partnerships.

"I recovered the transportation to beryllium beneath mean arsenic per the ICC guidelines since it was not an adjacent contention betwixt bat and ball."

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The Gabba has received one demerit constituent nether the ICC's transportation and outfield monitoring system.

Demerit points stay progressive for 5 years and if a venue accumulates 5 demerit points it's suspended from hosting immoderate planetary cricket for 12 months.

Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer were among the cricket greats who said they'd ne'er seen a greener Gabba pitch.

But Dale Steyn directed attraction distant from the greenish apical connected the Fox Cricket broadcast, pointing retired Head's innings of 92 and lamenting the inability of the South African batters to use themselves.

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