Stop making dead and bland pitches.
Ban Sri Lankans playing days in and out without getting out.
Who bothers about the world records of 72 years or 100 years. Closely fought tests are the need of the hour. We dont need a Test where a wicket keeper scores 148 when on true pitches he averages 20s or even less.
Abuse me or spread bad words about me for writing this, but all batting records in Test cricket (read high scores or wicket partnerships) belong to Sri Lanka. Their brand of Test cricket is different from what India, Australia, SA and England play.
And despite scoring 700 runs or having huge wicket partnerships, they have not won as many tests as they would have liked to.
Batting 2nd in a test long when 400 has been scored in first innings is fine, but for 2 and half days is huge. 71 fours and 2 sixes were hit in SL inns whereas 59 and 2 were the figures for Indians. That sets who was positive and who was not.
Spare out the 4 wickets to swing on day 1, session 1. This test would have been a repeat of Colombo 1997. But I am pretty sure Indians would have batted for day and half (ideally for having a long score) and then would have had a go at Lankans, but dead pitches wont evenn help anybody.
Motera is notorious for that and Sri Lankans are even more notorious for batting long by boring out the spectators on ground and TV. Its like you switch on the TV expecting some fast runs or interesting duals in Test cricket as they happen, instead you find their 6 or 7 or 8 making 100s or 50s.
Dont believe me. Google it and you d find it.
