by sussexpob » Mon Nov 29, 2021 2:18 pm
With the recent weather in OZ, its hard to predict what conditions will be like, because it seems all the venues have been deluged by constant rain. How that will affect the pitches is yet to be seen, or if it indeed will. I tend to think that when Australia are confident in out batting a team, the more the pitches will fade to help batting. The pitches last time out did more v India, but I think the Aussies are wary of giving India flat decks..... they, and everyone, just under-estimated how well the Indian seam reserves would do. While it seemed more conventional wisdom on how Indian team bats when conditions dont assist pace bowlers (their home records are enough of an indication they can bat all day).
With England though, unless its as flat as a pancake, I cant see us scoring many. So I expect good batting surfaces that Australia have a chance to wrack up scores on.
England really need to target that Adelaide test.... If they can't win in Adelaide, its going to be a long series. Jimmy had that pink ball ragging around under lights last time, and in those conditions the England medium-fast quicks have most chance of breaching the gaps between teams.
Although the Aussies can bowl with the pink ball too..... after all, India did make 36 all out in the DN test last time out.
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