This is from India's tour of West Indies, May 2006-
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The track at the Queen's Park Oval looks hard and dry. Chief curator Shekhar Mano, who has been working hard on the pitch, feels that the pitch would have something for both the bowlers and the batsmen.
''It's going to offer good bounce and carry. Even the spinners will get good bounce, though not much turn for them is at the offings" he said.
The whole square was re-laid seven months back and since then only one ODI has been played. The match between West Indies and Zimbabwe turned out to be low scoring one and the pitch was criticised for being low and slow.
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Look at the
scorecard of 5th ODI, how much Sreesanth, Munaf, and Bhajji struggled. If the pitch is still the same way, it probably won't offer much turn or bounce, kind a like our Fatullah pitch.
It may be very bad news for Shahadat, his short deliveries will just turn into waist high longhops to be whopped. If he still refuses to bowl at fuller lengths, it may be better for us to go with Tapash.
For our spinners, they depend more on the drift of the ball than turn. Most of the time they just skid the ball to batsmen (especially Sakib). As long the grass is trimmed off, they should be ok.
For our batsmen, they have to adapt to the pace of the pitch.