"We left it longer because we knew we were going to get [hot] weather at the back end that we knew we needed our grass [for]. You look back at it and you go, well, it's favoured the bowlers too much days one and two'. If that doesn't happen, then we set ourselves up really good for day three and four."
"If we don't have seam movement here at the MCG we become very dull, very lifeless and very flat, which is no good for the players, no good for the spectators and it's no good for the game, Page said. So for us, it's about providing that seam movement. We've gone too far with this one and obviously we're very, ver"
The MCG head curator acknowledged staff prepared a pitch that favoured bowlers too heavily, leaving 10 mm of grass on the surface. The Boxing Day Test between Australia and England finished within two days, following an earlier three-day finish in Perth, marking the first time a series has had multiple two-day Tests in 129 years. Cricket Australia faces substantial financial losses and will issue refunds to patrons who bought sold-out day three tickets. Stadium leadership continues to support the curator. Curators aimed to preserve seam movement and guard against late hot weather, but the surface proved treacherous for batters.
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