April 15, 2008...2:46 pm
India engineer win
Engineer being the operative word. As soon as SA captain Graeme Smith saw the pitch Kanpur he held his head in his hands.
It put SA on the backfoot from the start. They said the pitch was cracking before the first day, if that’s true there really was no point in playing the test.
Lets be honest, it is pretty much a form of cheating. India lost the second test, and decided they couldn’t possibly be outplayed at home, so lets prepare a pitch so conjucive to spin that SA won’t stand a chance.
It was that bad, Harbajan Singh will actually be dissapointed he didn’t get 10 wickets in the match.
SA did well to get 265 in the first innings, with Smith and Hashim Amla both battling their way to half-centuries. But India took a commanding 60 run lead, after a frustrating last wicket stand between Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma.
Anyone could have predicted what would happen next. With the ball turning square and bouncing excessively, SA were bowled out for 121 with Harbajan and Sehwag doing the damage. India knocked off the 60 runs to level the series.
2 Comments
April 15, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Well! If S.A. had got that last wicket quickly it would’ve made it 100-120 to win. O.K. so India will probably still have won but that’s because S.A. have no decent spinners.
It’s home advantage…not cheating
April 15, 2008 at 5:25 pm
There should be some kind of regulations, that pitch was just ridiculous.
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