There has been plenty of discussion about the MCG pitch after 20 wickets fell on the first day.<\/p>\n
The wicket was described as \u201cfurry\u201d by Steve Smith and it was later revealed that it was cut with 10 millimetres of grass on it compared to 7mm last year for the Test with India (which went into Day 5).<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t seen a pitch move as much as that in a long, long time, it didn\u2019t just have sideways movement, it had extra bounce,\u201d Stuart Broad said on Channel 7.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think particularly the ball to Will Jacks, I know he is England\u2019s No.8, but he is a fine player. It bounced and nipped and caught the inside edge of his bat and almost unplayable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look at that England side and yes they\u2019ve been bowled out for 110 but I do not think they have just thrown it away and given it away.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarry Brook, that\u2019s virtually impossible to play a ball at 135 clicks, nipping back into the middle of middle stump. So they got some good balls.<\/p>\n
\u201cJacob Bethell has not played much cricket at all, comes in at number three against Mitchell Starc and Michael Neser and gets one from around the wicket nips away that could\u2019ve been either LBW, but he got a bit of a feather on it, caught behind. So, I don\u2019t think England did a huge amount wrong, I thought Australia were relentless and brilliant with the ball and England have to follow that with the ball today to get themselves a chance in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n
David Lloyd said: \u201cAll the talk has been about the length of the grass and 10 millimetres where usually it\u2019s seven, so what we are seeing is, it is so bowler friendly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019d have loved to have had a bowl on there. You can think of so many bowlers that would be unplayable.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, when you are a batter and you get steep bounce and movement, you\u2019re in trouble and then you see your 20 wickets, which is what we\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean you\u2019d be disappointed if you don\u2019t come off here with some really good figures, because you\u2019ve just got to bowl the line and the length and the pitch will do the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bharat Sundaresan said the curator has made an \u201cerror\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is two extremes \u2026 Last year Boxing Day was 40 degrees and this time, (the curator) has said he had to leave the extra grass because he expected the weather to turn in the next couple of days when it gets warmer, but he has made a mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is pretty obvious, and the pitch has become a discussion. But I would not put it all down to that, with the way England batted, I think some of their batters, Ben Duckett and co, they have already booked their seats and have their boarding passes in their pocket and they are on their way home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been plenty of discussion about the MCG pitch after 20 wickets fell on the first day.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,56117,802,740,1625,3863,588,85,33383],"class_list":["post-374037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-cricket-team","tag-boxing","tag-cricket","tag-lifestyle","tag-sponsored-content","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-the-ashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}