The MCG pitch, a two-day Ashes Test, millions of dollars lost and a curator in a ‘state of shock’

The MCG groundsman has explained why he left too much grass on the strip for the Boxing Day Test as the financial ...
The South African on MSN

MCG curator in 'state of shock' after Ashes Test carnage

Melbourne Cricket Ground head curator Matt Page said Sunday he was in a "state of shock" watching the carnage unfold during ...
Cricketnmore on MSN

Ashes: Curator Page in ‘state of shock’ as MCG Test ends in two days

Page and his team left 10 millimetres of grass on the wicket, providing fast bowlers with excessive seam movement and bounce ...

Ashes: 36 wickets in 2 days! MCG curator in 'state of shock'

Melbourne Cricket Ground head curator Matt Page admitted he was left in a “state of shock” after witnessing the carnage ...

‘State of shock’: MCG curator faces music with big admission over Boxing Day debacle

MCG head curator Matt Page has confessed he was in a “state of shock” watching the carnage unfold during this week’s Boxing ...

‘I wish I’d faced these poor modern teams’: world’s oldest living Test cricketer on decline in standards

Neil Harvey, 97, the last surviving Bradman Invincible, blasts England’s Bazball experiment from his La-Z-Boy armchair ...

Why are Test matches finishing so quickly? Impatience, sports science, pitch quality… and the wanger

Between the end of the Second World War and the turn of the millennium, no Tests ended in two days - but there have been 12 ...
AFP on MSN

‘Hopefully will never involve in a match like that again,’ says MCG curator after Boxing Day Test

Page and his team left 10 millimetres of grass on the wicket, providing fast bowlers with excessive seam movement and bounce.

'State of shock': Cricket reckons with two-day pitch fiasco

The demons of the 2017-18 Ashes bore-draw was the chief factor in the Melbourne Cricket Club producing a Boxing Day pitch tilted too heavily towards favouring fast bowling, and which failed to get the ...

MCG chief curator "in state of shock" as he breaks silence at two-day Test

Various experts criticised the Melbourne Boxing Day Test for the Ashes, ex-cricketers not only from Australia and England, but also from world cricket, for ending within a span of just two days, with ...

Two-day Test leaves $25 million revenue hole as MCC stands by curator

The MCG’s reputation as the best Test pitch in the country has taken a battering after staging just the 27th two-day Test in ...