Dr Cricket wrote:Sri Lanka was the toughest place in which to open a Test innings.
http://www.espn.co.uk/cricket/story/_/i ... ss-phantom
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Good post.
I wrote my views on his career when he went past the England run scoring record and not much has changed since, barring the steepness of the decline. I'm left with two contradictory thoughts. That he was the best good-pitch batter I've seen for England. And he was a monster in India.
Clearly time to go.
Dr Cricket wrote:Disagree with that alfie.
Sri lanka is the toughest place to open the place.
Statically it is the toughest place to open in the test playing nations, even tougher than england.
you either get Swing with the humidity, Seam if they prepare green tops, india gets green tops and seam friendly decks, no idea why considering india are so much better than sri lanka in those conditions, surely you will prepare something sri lanka can bowl and bat with lol.
but with england it will be a turning conditions and with it turning early on, sri lanka will have spinners straightaway and it will have more purchase for the spinners and bounce more with the new ball and the turn isn't consistent with the new ball plus you add in the fact the new ball causes the turn to be faster as well so tougher for the opening batsman.
Sri lanka isn't an easy place to open.
Sri Lanka was the toughest place in which to open a Test innings.
http://www.espn.co.uk/cricket/story/_/i ... ss-phantom
can't find the article about sri lanka being the toughest place to open barring the comment in this one, but cricinfo had a peice on it earlier but sri lanka is a tough place to open though.
opening partnership hardly go past 50 here, think india vs sri lanka had a series where the highest opening partnership was 15 or something and you had Dhawan, pujara and Rahul plus vijay all scoring hundreds lol.
although that pujara innings was an all time great innings.
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