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Despite the series going to India for the second T20I, Bracewell didn’t complain about the spin-friendly surface. Although he would not like to play on such a surface regularly, he said that he has learned lessons from such matches.
visiting teams India Whenever he gets a chance to play on a spin-friendly pitch in any format of cricket in the country, he is always vocal in his complaints, trying to break down the pitch as unfit, dangerous and bad for cricket .
But New Zealand spinner Michael Bracewell had no such complaints after India lost the low-scoring second T20 of the three-match series on a spin-friendly pitch at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana. Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.
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New Zealand were restricted to only 99/8 in their 20 overs on a pitch on which the ball took copious turn and was unplayable at times. In reply, India almost ate the chase as New Zealand used five spinners to put pressure on them.
With three runs needed from two balls, Suryakumar Yadav smashed Blair Tickner over mid-off for four to level the three-match series at 1-1. In the match, spinners from both teams bowled 30 out of 40 overs, with no sixes being hit by either team’s batsmen.
While the former India left-handed batsman Gautam Gambhir And New Zealand fast bowler all-rounder James Neesham was critical of the nature of the Lucknow pitch, with Bracewell not complaining about the surface despite being asked key questions on the nature of the surface.
Although he said that he would not like to play regularly on such a surface, he said that he had learned his lesson from such matches.
Bracewell said in the post-match press, “It’s probably not the wicket you want to play on every time you play Twenty20, but sometimes it’s an exciting opportunity to learn and try and hone your skills. ” conference.
“We can’t complain. It’s exciting trying to figure out how to play on these different wickets,” Bracewell said.
He said, ‘If you play on such a wicket all the time or play on a wicket that is flat all the time, then you do not get the true test of your skills. I think the variety of wickets around the world is a positive thing,” Bracewell said.
Bracewell is usually starved of any kind of assistance from pitches at home and can only expect such help from the spinners in his dreams.
He said that the spinners on both sides bowled well on the Lucknow pitch.
“I think both teams showed that the spinners bowled really well and made it really difficult to score. It’s one of the best, a very exciting game, but maybe a little different from the usual Twenty20 that we’ve come to expect.”
The ball was spinning so much that New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner himself changed hands as the spinners bowled 17 of the 19.5 overs for the Black Caps.
“I was trying to find them [spinners] Of all places, I was about to ask Lockie [Ferguson] If he can bowl some off-spin..it was definitely something different,” Santner said.
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