Batting On Two-Paced Roads
The following are game/innings high scores from the DLF Cup in
| Player | Runs | Balls Faced | Match # |
| Ricky Ponting | 54 | 53 | 1 |
| Michael Clarke | 81 | 79 | 1 |
| Chris Gayle | 58 | 46 | 1 |
| Shivnarine Chanderpaul | 92 | 83 | 1 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 141 | 148 | 2 |
| Chris Gayle | 45 | 35 | 2 |
| Shane Watson | 79 | 74 | 3 |
| Michael Hussey | 109 | 90 | 4 |
| Brian Lara | 87 | 4 |
With three matches still remaining, you would not be inclined to read the aforementioned list and declare the surfaces as being “up and down”, “two-paced” or anything other than a batsman’s paradise. Sure, the ball has darted around with a large smattering of help from the heavens, but that could be expected of any surface.
Having briefly surveyed a few matches on the box, one would not be moved to pronounce the pitches, roads. However, I do maintain that the absence of other “batsman” from the list above can be blamed on their own failure to play themselves in and adapt to different conditions, rather than any gremlins inherent in the surface.
As an aside, it is interesting to note (with maybe one exception) how the names of the select few that are lauded on a global scale, always make such compilations.
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