The pitch for the first India-English test at at at headingley is being praised to the skies. The yorkshire and england great geoff boycott, in in Telegraph Column, called it a dream wicket for batsmen where “Good bowlers who know their back with pace and aggrassion tow wickets … and ordinary straight-down bowlers punished.”
Richard Robinson, The Man Responsible for Keeping Both bowlers and batsman in the game till the final session of the 5th day, has a good old trusted sauce and a delicate recipe that keeps the picture spicely spicled bore. Through the course of the match. It is a combination of science and art in how robins first stores water in the pitch and through the test pulls it out every day. “It is a fine balance. It can easily go wrong and there can have been 70 all out on the first day you never know you can get it wrong. Say Robinson, a couple of days after the test that goes to the wire with English Winning.
First the sauce that is actually easy available at any gardening shop. It is called ‘Wetting Agent’, Scientific Name ‘Surfactant’. The primary function of this solution – it can also be in granular form – is to decrease the surface tension of the Liquid it is added to. It is commonly used in paints so it spreads even on the wall, in pesticides helping it to cover, in determining to get to find thread of the fabric. So when a ‘wetting agent’ is added to the water that showers the pitch, it penetrates the soper deper and steps there.
Dealing with a long dry summer and unusually Sweltering Sun, Curator Robinson stepped up the watering and got ‘wetting agent’ in the mix. “I put a lot of moisture into the surface about two weeks before the game. “I have used a little bit of ‘wetting agent’ which moisture go into the Soil. Water to see in. ” The watering agent triggers a chemical reaction by which the water moles that are close to each other spray.
England Beat India By Five Wickets In The First Anderson-Tendulkar Test At Headingley in Leeds. (Ap)
Once the water gets retained in the pitch, comes the different task of bringing the water droplets, Rather Moisture, to the top surface of the pitch on all days of the test. This process isnt done in one go but through the five days of the test. There are two ways in which this can be achieved.
“I gradually started bringing the moisture out but just because it was quite a hot forecast I had to leve quite a lot of moisture inside so that pitch memains give for the Last couple of day of the game,” “Like it is done at other places as well we use plastic sheets or big rollrs to get the moisture out, depending on how you want to do it. Plastic sheets make the pitch sweat.” MeanWhile, The Heavy Roller uses its weight to squeeze the moisture out and settle on the top of the Soil surface.
Boycott had the attendance to detail as he appreciated the affors of the headingley curator. “Too many grandsmen leave some moisture or a bit of grass on the surface to make the pitch lasts four or five days. Too Much uneven bounce not break up. “He wrote.
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Robinson says that pitches in headingley didn’t crumble but it was hearting to see the catches carry to the slips and ball turning from the rough eveen on the final day of test. But what surprised him was the lack of swing when there was heavy cover of dark clouds over headingley. “It was surrounded but this has been a drink summer and it has been drinking march so there is that is something.
The curator says the headingley pitch was fair even thoughtsmen scored heavily. “England didn ‘bowl very well on the first day of the test, if they had got a few more wickets,” He said. As for the Indian, they have bowled well and Held their catches too. Pitches can help bowle but only if the fielders hold on to the catches that come their way.