After winning the one-day series Pakistan has come to the conclusion that its spinners can pose problems for England's batsmen. This impression perhaps gained ground following the victory in the Karachi ODI where the home team lost on a track that yielded an aggregate of 609 runs. Had Pakistan adopted the spinning strategy in the first encounter the dew disadvantage could have been easily neutralized. Here I would like to dilate on the term home advantage for the readers to grasp its fuller implications.
Different countries prepare the playing strip to suit their teams.
In India spinners wickets are designed since they had a galaxy of world class spinners in the past like Bishen Singh Bedi, Parsanna and Chandrashekar upto Anil Kumble, who belongs to the same category. England preferred seamers surfaces as they had acknowledged masters of the art in Ian Botham and Mike Hendrick. The Caribbeans commanded a brigrade of superb speedsters like Roy Gilchrist Wesley Hall and Griffith who revelled on steam roller surface where the ball tended to fly. Australia went for bouncy tracks to help trundlers like Allan Davidson, Miller and Lindwall. Later, Lillee and Thomson sparkled on similar wickets.