An overcast day, for example, can change the way a game will be played by giving the ball more 'swing' through the air, making life tough for the batsman. Playing all day in the hot sun can drain a player, especially if he's out batting all day. A lot of cricket is played on the sub-continent, where temperatures during games regularly soar into the 40s around deg. Remember all that gear from point five? Yeah, it makes us sweat just thinking about it too. But it's not only the weather that can have an effect—the pitch conditions also have a major impact on the game.
The groundsmen can prepare a pitch to be fast, slow, offer something to the swing bowlers, or give the pitch some turn, which helps out the spin bowlers. And then there's the outfield. If it's dry and fast, the batsmen won't have to run as much—but the fielders will. If it's damp and slow, the batsmen have a long day of running ahead of them.
The conditions don't play nearly as big a part in baseball as they do in cricket—just ask a cricket side that's had to field for 3 straight days in India.
Why do baseballers wear catching mitts? Is it that hard to catch a baseball in you're bare hands? It has quite a generous green cover, assisting the fast bowlers generously, and the biggest task for the team batting first is to get through the opening overs where the new ball bowlers are deadly.
Another fast pitch from the Caribbean, which was famous and feared in equal measure during the 80s and early 90s for their incredible fast bowling attack which was invincible at home and away.
This was one of those pitches, and it has a cover of disease resistant and fast spreading Bermuda grass, which has made this a haven for quick bowlers, with true bounce and movement. The Gabba pitch, situated in Brisbane has always been known to be a good pitch for cricket. The pitch has been knows to stay true for 5 days, meaning very little cracking in the pitch, thus always making it an intriguing contest between the batsmen and the fast bowlers who get a lot of assistance early on.
This is a better type of pitch for test cricket as it will wear slowly and last much longer over five days. It can help the faster bowlers initially before providing what should be an even contest between bat and ball. There are no cracks, no grass and little wear.
A flat pitch offers little assistance to the bowlers so the batsmen will enjoy the predictable bounce which should follow. A dry pitch will have no moisture and it will have a tendency to crack. A wet pitch has moisture which can be due to humidity or a failure of the covers to do their job. If play does commence on a wet pitch, the ball may skid or it may bounce higher than usual and that unpredictability will help the bowlers. Dusty pitches are typically left unrolled and they literally have a powdery covering of dust.
In Tests, the average runs per wicket is But perhaps even more impressive, the average runs per over at the ground in ODIs is an incredibly high 5. It is therefore no surprise that in the BCCI recommended the pitch be relaid. It will be hard for spinners to turn the ball.
Pitches with no grass tend to help spinners, especially if dry and dusty although they tend to be easier to bat on first before they have deteriorated. Pitches with reasonable pace punish bowlers that bowl at medium or slow pace. In other words, only the best fast bowlers and top spin bowlers will prosper in the modern game on fast bouncy pitches. A dead pitch is entirely flat with absolutely no grass or moisture on the surface.
When pitch becomes wet due to rain, match will be abandoned until it becomes dry because, 1 because during the bowlers run up he may skid on the pitch as it is dry, not only the bowlers but also the batsmen may feel it hard to run on it. Along with swing, the bounce in these wickets is unpredictable. Even if these pitches seem to help the seam bowlers but serve absolutely nothing for a spinner.
A pitch which is in such a physical state that it is tremendously advantageous to a spin bowler and provides no advantage to a fast bowler is called as a slow wicket.
On slow pitches, as the difference between the two speeds is much higher, it is easy for the batsman to score runs off the short length deliveries, hence it is tough for the bowlers to bowl shorter length deliveries effectively. The bowlers generally tend to ball full-pitched deliveries rather than short balls.
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