Pitch Report: The block itself here looks absolutely fantastic. It really does. It looks absolutely brilliant. It's made up of a number of different soils, actually. It can get quite complicated. You've got a black soil, you've got a red soil, and you've got a mixed soil. More importantly than all of that, this is a red soil pitch. And with the red soil, what it generally does, Wilco, is it carries. We're going to see a little bit of pace here. We're going to show you some examples from the New Zealand-Afghanistan game, which was played not on this pitch, but on a red soil pitch. It just goes through a little bit better. it's just going to carry a little bit. There's a little bit more in it for bowling shorter of a length. Jacob Duffy as well will bang it into the surface. So maybe bowlers, we're not perhaps going to see as much pace, but the bowlers have got a bit of an option here to vary their lengths a little bit. I say beware. Because if you're bowling short from this end here, that's fine, left-hander. I've got anchorage, anchorage out there, Wilco, over your head. But if I'm going to turn around and bat from the other end, I'm just going to turn my back to you here. That's the short side. So you don't really want to be banging it into the surface here, because that stand there looms large. So this is the kind of stuff, Wilco, that you're going to have to be switched on. Try and get a left-hander and a right-hander batting together, because then you can open up the leg side and the other side in the same over.
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