Lifeless pitches ensure India's ordinary batsmen look very talented

Editors note: This is a comment we received from a reader on the piece Don’t blame batsmen, bowlers let down India against SA

by Amol

Really? What about the terribly overrated batsmen who are tigers at home?

Just look at the difference in standards when batting on home pitches and abroad. Sehwag scored a one day double centuy in india and then went on to fail spectacularly in Australia.Similarly Rohit Sharma looked like a ‘cat on a hot tin roof’ last evening.

We are making a laughing stock of ourselves all over by preparing lifeless pitches at home which makes ordinary batsmen look very talented.

Our desi commentators/experts like Ravi Shastri, Manjrekar, Gavaskar,Ayaz Menon etc just want to be on the right side of the corrupt BCCI and never criticize the flat pitches.

This tour was cut short to accommodate a suitable farewell to Tendulkar and once this is over another domestic series will be organised. And the crazy fans and experts will be back to going gaga over chasing down 350 plus scores on dull, lifeless pitches.

The records and averages of Indian batting ’legends’ should be normalised , keeping in mind they play a lot of innings on Indian tracks. Even the Harbhjan Singhs,R Ashwins have TWO test centuries in home conditions!!