With the World Cup just around the corner, everyone predicts a cracker of a tournament!! Ofcourse every nation will be doing their best to try and win it, but playing alone wouldn't win any of the sides the Cup.
The matches will be close together in terms of date, so there wouldn't be enough time to get a great pitch all the time. The first 2 matches might be there for a nice, hard and bouncy surface with the ball coming on, but as time goes by, it will wear and tear, and with the sun beating down, there will be cracks and this is when the slower bowlers will come up thrumps! Having said all of that, poor selection and misjudgement of the pitches could affect the performance of the teams.
SA as we all know, are reluctant in playing spinners! It will haunt them this time around; and short pitch bowling all the time won't work in the caribbean at all! You will get savaged! Simply because as the tournament goes by, the surfaces would have lost some of it's life and that includes bounce and pace. Now is where the great and clever players will succeed. Pressure will be on when the pitch isn't in your favour and you have to have a good brain - something that is lacking in this sport today - to get out of the mess!
Trust me, by this April, we shall see the boys separated from the men!
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