The Beauty and the Beast

yeah!! its a prefect story for wat i call "The Beauty and the Beast" . I am not talking about any hollywood or bollywood story..but its about cricket.That too about ongoing India-Pakistan series. Here the Beauty and the Beast both have been the "pitches" on which the matches are being played.

The Pitch at Lahore and Faisalabad have been a beauty for batsmen and it has acted like beast for bowlers. In Lahore as many as 6 centuries were scored with induvidual scores from batsmen reading like 254,199,173,128*,103,103*..with over 1000 runs scored and jus about 8 wickets were lost and that too 2 of them were runouts!!. With rain and badlight takin away major part of the match it turned out to be a runfeast for batsmen and a nightmare for bowlers...

At Faisalabad it was no diffrent. Again it was a flat pitch and as many as 5 centuries were scored. With induvidual scored like 194,144,152,129,103,90,90,88 and so on.. so agian a nightmare for bowlers anyways nearly 28 wickets fell in the match.. But it was a bad advertisement for test cricket as it was a mere draw in end..with almost intrest lost on the 4th day itself..

Now in Karachi its a totally diffrent pitch and it has become a beauty for bowlers and beast for batsmen..First over of the match produced an hatrick and as many as 14 wickets went down on day 1 for 319 runs in total.. and day2 till now 8 wickets lost for about 300 runs...So definately we have a result on this pitch and we have somebody for sure winning the series unless somebody plays some miracle to take this match to a draw.

So series till last 2 days was a totally dull and boring.. and now there is some life and interest and with batsmen fighting on a bowlers beauty.. we are lheading for an intresting end. Anyways the boards and authories must ensure that they make sporting pitches which act as beauty and beast to both batsmen and bowler ..An even contest is always good when we have an over hyped series like India-Pakistan..