Bowling with a wet ball: 'It's about training your brain to understand that it is going to be extremely difficult'
Apr 23, 2021 How do bowlers deal with dew? Dale Steyn and Ajit Agarkar tell us
Pitches
Over the years the endeavour has been to take pitches out of the equation for ODIs and Twenty20s, by making them flat and uniform, so that the toss does not play a crucial part in the shorter format. In Tests, though, the preparation of the pitch and its durability are much more significant, impacting the result and duration of the game. Quite naturally pitches and their preparation in the longer forms of the game evoke a lot of comment and often controversy.
Should the women's game use a shorter pitch and a smaller ball?
Jun 23, 2020
| Interviews
Smriti Mandhana, Rachael Haynes, Lea Tahuhu, Kate Cross and Nida Dar discuss potential innovations in women's cricket
Champions Trophy
Hard, flat and true
May 26, 2017 England's one-day pitches have become distinctly more batsman-friendly over the past few seasons, and that has played a vital part in the national team's new approach
The pitches in India were great. Won't you agree, Australia?
Mar 30, 2017
| Sam Perry
Australians' tendency to reject turning and seaming pitches as good ones says a lot about their own culture
How do you feel about artificial pitches?
Mar 20, 2017
| Liam Cromar
Unless they can exhibit the variety that turf pitches have, they risk devaluing the game by stripping away subtlety
Why are only spinning wickets classified as poor?
Mar 5, 2017
| Michael Jeh
Several seam-led collapses in the last few years have seemingly escaped censure
Ashes 2017-18
Nine deadly pitches
Feb 28, 2017 The Wanderers has become the ninth full-member pitch to be rated 'poor' or worse since the ICC introduced its pitch and outfield monitoring process
India v Australia, 1st Test, Pune
How the Pune pitch backfired for India
Feb 26, 2017 Even though the pitches at the MCA Stadium in Pune have usually been flat or have assisted seamers, preparing a rank turner for its Test debut meant there was an accident waiting to happen
County news
ECB mulls artificial pitches for T20
Feb 17, 2017 The ECB is looking into the possibility of using artificial pitches in its proposed new T20 competition
India have a flat-pitch problem
Jan 23, 2016
| Sanjay Manjrekar
When faced with batting-friendly tracks in recent times, their bowlers have just not been equal to the task