No one likes to see there sometimes being things that makes it so in one team’s favour, and despite that some can’t so something about it, they only want that both have an equal chance of succeeding. They only want that not only one team has the possibility to have a hand over the others, which everything hinges on one aspect, and every cricket fan perhaps vies that their team can be the top-dog on the basis of some things that is not supposed to be so largely poised on the result, but admits that they want to see a battle that goes beyond what is one-sided.
At times, however, some want to utilise the power that the others have, wanting to not let it happen by things that they can do. They want to change things without anyone pointing fingers to them, and although people can sometimes want to give a second chance to all, the ones with power have the power to let anything happen that is against whom they object to. And they can do it without anyone suspecting.
They are willing to do something that they can do against the team that they want to utilise, and want to change things from what is the normal way of doing things. It can be that the home team has the advantage, and can play how they want to, because their opponents had been robbed of an opportunity laying in wait of being used.
The now-underdogs wanted to play to their strengths to prove that they have what it takes to come out on top, but have been robbed off it, and have to find a new way to do so. And to do that is not easy, especially when the team that you are facing has long-since been one of the world’s most consistent powers, and a young team that has shown signs of progress.
An example of it is when the native groundsmen prepared a pitch that suited their team, and in which the toss played too much of a part in the test series-opener. So, when India had accepted that they could not go so on for any longer, they saw that by using the home-grown people could be a way to have it their way, and despite that they shrugged off suggestions of the sort when they were asked by the press on the matter, it was an opportunity for them to asked the groundsmen to change the nature of the pitch. They realised that they could not handle the way that the Proteas’ quicks charged into them, and that the way that the pitches played first up suited the highly-skilled batsman of the visitors made them be vulnerable, something that had not concurred often in conditions that they can call home.
And India knew that there was heed to change, otherwise the same old story of them losing would be able to happen over and over again until the tour was over. It was just a matter of making the groundsmen under prepare the pitch for Mohali, so that they can have a chance by using the experience from playing on similar pitches as aspiring boys, and that they can utilise the spin on offer as a result of the way that the track was to be made.
They knew very well that they could do with the pitch what they wanted, and although there may be that the players did not approach the ones who prepare the pitch, the groundsmen knew that their beloved Indian team was in the firing line, needing to perform, and knew that they would need all the help in the world.
The wry smile on Virat Kohli’s face after he got what he wanted, winning a toss that played too much of a factor on a pitch that suited his team perfectly, said it all, and was too evident. It was clear he knew that whoever had to face first had the advantage, as it would deteriorate even more so by time.
Given it, despite that it was largely in favour of the Indians, there was hope that it would remain the same. At least that was in hope of the Proteas; if it would it would play in their hands. But, if not they would have to dig in and try to make something out of nothing. Such a track would have given the hosts a way to fight back after they had been below-par for the majority of things prior to the real thing, where they must have to turn up.
But there was such an amount of turn on offer that they would only have to do what they normally would do, and things would take care of itself. That was certain, but if one did not land the ball in areas that had the potential to have a wicket written all over it, you could not have had the success that those before you had. And to go and look for the ‘magic ball’ would have you tied in a knot, instead of going with the flow, and letting things happen by giving it a chance to do so.
How it looked when it began was how it must have looked after there had been already much play on it, and it was to lament, not that it was not done with a thought on having it to be so. It was prepared so that it would suit the way that India could come back, and that it would give them the best chance to return cannot be doubted, but that it was necessary was undoubted. It was not, and India was lucky to win the toss, because if they had not it might have turned out to be far otherwise than what the end result.
Although it played into their hands, there is doubted over if they will want to have a similar type of pitch for the rest of the eye-opener series…Kohli must be ready to pluck the hair out of his head in frustration at the inability to be able to make his way back into form. He will want that there is a track made in the next one so that he would not be made to look so much that he has not renewed his form of old, and he has, but he can doubt his technical abilities at this stage, still, because of how he did not look at his best at any stage during the test match that included a pitch dubbed as ‘unplayable’.
And, yes, they had their best chance that they have had against the Proteas in quite some time, by the thinking behind the pitch, but one can be accurate when you think that they will want one that leans more towards their strong batting line-up. On both sides there was no chance given to thrive for those with bat in hand and a more even preposition can be expected.
That is, unless of course, the groundsmen have other ideas…But to have such a pitch that only gives a chance to what has been recently described as an aspect that has not earned enough of a chance to do what was meant to be as proficient as batting is, and was, was not meant to be as much changed. Too much change can leave the game on the whole to be so discriminate, and it can only mean that it can lead to be so predictable that no one would want to watch.
And that is not what anybody wants, but to leave the game so far from intact, and the margin for error is so small that the groundsmen changed the track so much that it was not a surprise that there was not so many people like we have become used to in India, a country where people flock to the stadiums in large numbers due to their great love for the game. A part of it may be heaped onto the groundsmen that prepared a pitch that was so one-sided that no-one really wanted to watch, and if they are to do so in the near future, well don’t expect that everything will get all right from itself.
The first thing that can be done, is that the ICC make rules over how a pitch must be prepared, and I’m not suggesting that there must be so many that the groundsmen struggle to grasp the amount of rules that must be followed, but at least we must not wait for somebody else to do it, but to do it ourselves the first time we can. It will help, and there needs to be some suggestions, so that we won’t get carried away, sitting there and complaining, but doing nothing, and when you do something that you think may help, do it, for the game at this moment needs everything that there is to carry on being what it is.
Of course, those who play on it will say that there is nothing wrong with it, but all who knows has some doubts that some of the pitches around the world, where it can be helped, and we should bother to do what is needed.