PITCHES IN INDIA
– CONFIDENCE BOOST FOR DEBUTANTS
Indian
pitches a place to unearth best out of young players
some players will have a long career in test
cricket because of the way they started in test cricket based on that, he would
have a long rope in international arena, well what could be the outcome of a
player who have came to India and some runs in Indian turning pitches against
the merciless Indian spinners then he would destined to became a great
player
Alastair cook
one such player comes
into mind, whenever I thought about this topic like Hameed the player for the
future or whoever else will be Alastair Cook, when he made debut against India
on a Wednesday morning of march 1 2006 at the age of 22, not many would have
thought that this man will became a legend in test cricket, toughest format
known in this ball game, (well from the Indian side especially). He opened the
batting with more established one at that time and he would open batting with
young prodigy for rest of his career (this thought would not have come in his
mind during that time) in first innings he lasted for 60 of 160 balls which spanned
for a period of 160 minutes and in the second innings he scored a brilliant
hundred to sign off in magnificent way, 104 in 243 balls. His numbers of 164
runs in 403 balls against the likes of Pathan, Sreesanth, Bhaji and the great Jumbo
himself, that day many would have thought this boy destined for many more to come.
Those have predicted it that
day will have a sigh of relief in 2016. At the age of 31 playing against India
in his 138 test match leading scorer for England in test cricket and also
captaining the side
Joe
root
This
is also guy arrives from same country but from different way of approach in
getting runs and too right handed has his debut in the same Nagpur pitch where
his captain made debut six years before , the top order batsman from Yorkshire batted in the middle order In
his debut match which was happen to be fourth match and final match of the
series which England won dramatically in the form of (2-1),in the match coming
in at 6th down and batted for 229 balls to get 79 runs spanned over
a period of 289 minutes , missed out of an well deserved hundred in his debut
match against the four prone spin attack used Msd in that match Ojha Jaddu
Chawala and the very own Ash incidentally Jaddu made his test debut in the same
match . Fast forward to 2016 he is the important cog in the English top order
and also first man in the team list foe cook, what turn around to debutant in
that day on turning track apparently he didn’t bat in the second innings of the
drawn match where his stats read as 79 of 229 balls.
Kane Williamson
Williamson is the same old breed of batsman as
Cook Dravid and so on, but he possessed the very own technique to defy the spin
attack of Indians on the bright sunny day 2010 in Ahmadabad where made the
debut at the age of 20 as a middle order batsman and to score a century in the
first innings was quite an achievement looking at the tracks around India in
those days mean while he took the wicket of Raina in the first innings that
should have definitely boosted the confidence of his likings. His score in the
match read as 131 from 299 balls at the strike rate of 43.81 too good for the
debutant even though he didn’t bat in the second innings he definitely made his
mark in quite worthy way.
