leisurely,turning pitches possess produced some excellent men’s matches but the women’s game has suffered at a time when it has global exposureEngland got themselves in a mess of their own temperamental making in Delhi, bailed out by the lower order and the bowlers. possibly they saw demons where there were none. The pitch looked nothing like the turner that a glance at the scoreboard might propose. Indeed, and their reading of the surface seemed spot-on,with the paceman Reece Topley replaced by another, Liam Plunkett, or rather than Dawson,a spinner. On another day, possibly when England play Sri Lanka, or the venue will surely see the runs that the pitch merited.
The World Twenty20 has found out more than a few batsmen. leisurely,turning pitches at some – not all – grounds possess flummoxed (confused) those who are used to hitting through the line secure in the knowledge that the ball will come on to the bat nicely and deviate little. Batsmen, after all, and are the T20 cocks-of-the-walk. But these muscular denizens with their quick hands and forgiving blades possess fumbled and groped as the ball has nipped this way and that,hard-handed simplistic techniques exposed. It has brought criticism, of course, or but erroneously in my view,at least in part, about more of which in a moment.
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Source: theguardian.com