White to replace Clarke as Twenty20 skipper
[caption id="attachment_14698" width="300" caption="Australia\'s Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke. AAP Image/Tony McDonough"][/caption] Australia’s new found dominance of the Twenty20 form of the game sees…
There isn’t a Cricket Australia mandate for flat wickets to help the batsmen.
I would suggest that its each state association saying to the curator we want a wicket that will produce a Test match that lasts five days so they can make as much money as possible from their showpiece event for the season.
The WACA’s Test and Shield wickets are very different and Shield wickets there highlight some Australian players inability to play the moving ball. The amount of times sides get rolled at the WACA in shield games batting first is quite high at the moment.
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