Questionable location for 1st Test in NZ and impact on BD
Guys I just came across this in CI. One of the scheduled test ground's pitch in brief like a mine field and if NZ wants to play against us on that pitch I am affraid we won't be able to put up any sort of resistence. The Auckland team in a first class game lost to Otago in two days. Now this could mean Auckland don't have defensive and technically sound batsmen or Otago has great bowlers.
The lines below copied and pasted from cricinfo and it makes for an interesting read.
"I'm getting irritable because there's a bit of a***-covering going on. If you'd put a Test attack on that surface you'd probably have killed someone once the divots dried out."
Auckland coach Mark O'Donnell is still fuming after his side lost within two days to Otago on a questionable track in Dunedin...which is about to host a New Zealand Test against Bangladesh
What do you guys think?
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