Apr 16, 2016 -- 6:06AM, jucel69 wrote:

I think there will be more chances judging by the standard of batting so far. Also I can some ropey decks on the horizonWas this a dodgy pitch or bad batting?Delhi seemed to knock them off with ease

I wrote a post analysing the Punjab dismissals but it got swallowed by the double space problem.  Essentially the shots and running to get out were pretty dreadful in thought or execution or both, although a lot of credit goes to the bowling for making run scoring very difficult and piling the pressure on. Even there though, the batsmen were culpable for being incapable of finding ways to rotate the strike.  There was an awful lot of scoring in binary, mostly dots, then an aberration and a wicket. 

Having said all that, it wasn't an easy track at all, with a bit of swing for the quicks and turn for the spinners.  Looking at the chase in retrospect slightly distorts the merits of the track, I think, as they struggled horribly initially and De Kock should have been out twice for very few runs and Delhi could well have been in the poo if he had, as would have eaten up a few overs getting to sod all for 2.