Durban, SA unexpectedly batsman friendly.
From the looks of the World Cup thus far and from our 2nd match against KZNatal last week, it's beginning to look like South Africa is tremendously batsman-friendly this time around. Lots of big scores and centuries.
What does this mean? If Bangladesh bats first and becomes complacent with only a 200+ score, they may be in BIG trouble. I think we need **at least** 260+ if we bat first to have some margin of comfort.
I was reading an article about pitch preparations in South Africa for the world cup. The person in charge of directing the whole operation said that in order to eliminate the traditional slight advantage of the team batting first, they had taken a little bit of extra grass off the pitches. This has made the pitches a little slower than usual. Perhaps the South Africa pitches won't be the pacers heaven that people were expecting.
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