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By Press Release in Cricket on 1st Dec 2010 9:00

As the dust - and there was plenty of it - settled on the first Test yesterday the cry went out all over Australia. The Ashes series needs a curator of carnage. True, the appeal was made within the syndicated reports of tabloid newspapers but it may as well have been placed in the situations vacant columns by the International Cricket Council.

The job, far from being connected with the lead role in Night at the Museum 3, refers to a groundsman willing to produce a spicy pitch that might yield a result other than a draw. For all the monumental individual achievements in the opening match of the series at Brisbane the match as a whole can be viewed as a failure for Test cricket.

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1 Dec 2010 by jlawrence

hmmm, and it had nothing at all to do with the fact that the bowlers were very poor.
It says something about both sides if you need the pitch to be prepared in xyz way in order to get a result.
England WERE bowled out in less than a day - obviously the pitch was way to benign then. What a lot of BS.

Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.

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