Why bowlers are bossing batsmen in this tri-series
19 June 2016 - 02:00
What's that shimmering like a mirage from the middle of the ground? If you're in the Caribbean, particularly in Jamaica, less often in Barbados, never in Guyana, but almost everywhere else in the region that made cricket sexy, it's the pitch.Most West Indian pitches are little more than slabs of clay rolled long and hard enough to acquire a sheen so slick that close observers see themselves reflected in the surface.
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