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Pietersen said it was the "most difficult Test pitch he has played on" because it was slow and the ball barely got over stump height. Patience is the key on wickets like that. Like the look of Joe Root - got his head down and played proper Test cricket.

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Fantastic from England today. Tailenders added valuable runs and then Anderson's brilliance has put India on the backfoot. Really looking forward to tomorrow, should be a fascinating. This test series showing why Test Cricket remains the best and most "pure" form of the game.

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Fantastic from England today. Tailenders added valuable runs and then Anderson's brilliance has put India on the backfoot. Really looking forward to tomorrow, should be a fascinating. This test series showing why Test Cricket remains the best and most "pure" form of the game.

Yeah, there's only one real form of cricket. The rest is just tip and run.

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Yeah so the English curators never, ever rolled out greentops to favour the home seamers?

The ACB never prepared pitches 'for Warne'. They didn't have to because he could turn a ball on glass. Nor would they wanted to, when you had a new ball attack of McGrath and Gillespie.

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Preparing 'home' pitches happens all the time, though I doubt we could prepare 'dust bowls' even if we wanted to. Anyone remember what last summer's weather was like? And we also have Anderson, Finn, Bresnan, Broad....etc. so there has to be something for the fast bowlers.

I don't know much about the Aussie squad as it stands, but they've just got bummed by India.

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Pg, I thought "curators" looked after museums ?

The Oval pitches usually take turn because of the Surrey loam, and Jim Laker took his famous 19 wickets against your lot with his off spin at Old Trafford but generally English pitches are natural greentops - as Norbert said it's hard for English groundsmen to prepare dust bowls even if they wanted to.

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