Sheffield Shield. Round 6.
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Donny
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"As per Cricket Australia's Playing Conditions, the match can be rescheduled if an alternative venue and time can be arranged. If a rescheduled game isn't possible, Victoria and WA will receive three points each, plus an average of the bonus points awarded in the round's other two Shield games."
- cricket.com.au
- cricket.com.au
Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
It's obvious what went wrong (at a higher level than wet divots, etc.). The groundsman has been under huge pressure to make it fairer to bowlers. He reacted to that pressure and instead just created the wet divots. What will likely happen now is that he'll overreact to his mistake and on Boxing Day it will be another **%(% road.Pies4shaw wrote:3 wickets in an entire 4-day match at the MCG - it’s clearly still a road.
I reckon if cricket is going to be killed like this, at least we should make some money out of the corpse. What are the draw odds for the Boxing Day Test?
'Following the previous Sheffield Shield match at the ground ... which fizzled out into a draw due to rain over the last two days, Handscomb spoke about the need to bring more life back to the pitches.
"[The] MCG pitch hasn't deteriorated for ten years," he said. "So I think we need to start making the game accelerate at the start of it, maybe make it a bit greener like it is in Hobart, where the game accelerates at the start and then becomes a good batting wicket. But that's up to the groundsman and see how they go."
Asked whether those comments played a part in influencing what head groundsman Matt Page produced this weekend, he said: "I think it may have helped him. We've had a lot draws at the MCG and it's about finding a wicket that can get a result. Unfortunately, he's gone a touch too far and I'm sure come Boxing Day he'll prepare a beautiful cricket wicket.
"Hindsight is a great thing. Unfortunately you can't change anything that you do. I said stuff, that happens, so be it."
Both Handscomb and Marsh offered their support to Page, who moved to the MCG after being head groundsman at the WACA. "I know Pagey very well. He's done some really good things since coming here. He was a great groundsman at the WACA," Handscomb said. "He has a lot of experience behind him and has a lot of time to prepare a wicket that, I think, will produce a good Boxing Day Test." '
(cricinfo)
"[The] MCG pitch hasn't deteriorated for ten years," he said. "So I think we need to start making the game accelerate at the start of it, maybe make it a bit greener like it is in Hobart, where the game accelerates at the start and then becomes a good batting wicket. But that's up to the groundsman and see how they go."
Asked whether those comments played a part in influencing what head groundsman Matt Page produced this weekend, he said: "I think it may have helped him. We've had a lot draws at the MCG and it's about finding a wicket that can get a result. Unfortunately, he's gone a touch too far and I'm sure come Boxing Day he'll prepare a beautiful cricket wicket.
"Hindsight is a great thing. Unfortunately you can't change anything that you do. I said stuff, that happens, so be it."
Both Handscomb and Marsh offered their support to Page, who moved to the MCG after being head groundsman at the WACA. "I know Pagey very well. He's done some really good things since coming here. He was a great groundsman at the WACA," Handscomb said. "He has a lot of experience behind him and has a lot of time to prepare a wicket that, I think, will produce a good Boxing Day Test." '
(cricinfo)
' "He's [Adelaide Oval curator Damien Hough] able to produce grassy surfaces which are even," [Mark] Taylor said on Nine's Sports Sunday program.
"At the moment the MCG, when they put grass on it, is uneven. That's what that surface was yesterday. That's the concern going into Boxing Day.
"What does the groundsman do? Does he become more conservative? Take the grass off it, take the moisture out of it and we have a boring game, or does he go for a bit of grass and risk what we saw yesterday?"'
"At the moment the MCG, when they put grass on it, is uneven. That's what that surface was yesterday. That's the concern going into Boxing Day.
"What does the groundsman do? Does he become more conservative? Take the grass off it, take the moisture out of it and we have a boring game, or does he go for a bit of grass and risk what we saw yesterday?"'