Geoffrey Boycott argues the condition of pitches is not the key to success in cricket matches
For many years, some may say since the birth of time, Geoffrey Boycott has been going on (and on) about cricket pitches and his view that in the days (his day) when pitches were left uncovered this provided a real if tough test of a cricketers skills.
The current India v England Test series has given rise to comments about the pitches, largely to the effect that they had been prepared to take spin and this was not therefore a level playing field.
In contrast I think its expected that pitches in India might take spin just as English and Welsh pitches are often good seam bowling strips.
However Boycott in his regular Telegraph column (18.2.21) has now decided that pitches are not that important.
He argues ‘nothing in the laws of cricket says the pitch should be flat for batsmen..the challenge for England is to look at their own batting and stop being so one-dimensional’
Like one of Boycott’s innings its taken time but he has got there.
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