825 runs were scored in Rajkot and 603 runs were scored in Nagpur, both matches went down to the wire. The TRP ratings went through the roof, the gate money was good, the advertisers and the sponsors can’t complain, the batsmen are having a time of their lives.  So why are some people whining ?

Don’t they understand the simple fact that for everything you gain you have to lose something. 

Cricket administrators decided long ago that in order to increase revenues and make cricket a spectator sport they will have to skew the game in favor of the batsman. The WWF model was followed to make the game more exciting for the spectators and the fair contest between bat and ball was taken out of the game.

Many restrictions were imposed on bowlers to take the venom out of bowling i.e limitations on overs, bouncer restrictions, field restrictions, strict wide and no ball rules, power plays, the compulsory ball change after 35 overs and shorter boundaries  but nothing succeeds more in rendering the bowlers toothless than a dead pitch. 

It is unfair to single out just BCCI for this crime, ODI and T20 pitches prepared all over the world are generally placid. The pitch at Rajkot was not much different from what we usually see in an Odi these days,  825 runs were scored because two of the most savage batsmen Sehwag and Dilshan were at their best in that match and the pace attack of both sides was below par.

Greed has imprisoned the souls of cricket administrators, they have no right to kill the soul of the game in the name of commercialization.

Test match cricket is almost dead and the ODi format is on it’s death bed, ICC wants to revive the game by using a pink ball and by holding day and night test matches, cricket cannot be revived with a pink ball it needs it’s soul back, the fair contest between bat and ball should be restored.

In a five match series at least two should be played on supporting tracks or else nobody is going to stay up all night for five days to watch a match which won’t produce a result.