Far more interesting than a road
With the plethora of roads that get dished up in international cricket these days, pitches like these separate the wheat from the chaff. The true measure of greatness in test match cricket is the ability to perform in different types of conditions, most notably the away record (as to a degree, each home team produces conditions to suit their style of replay)
The 1st test at Chennai was an absolute bore, where whoever won the toss and batting first won the test, with England getting two days of batting paradise before the pitch started to crumble from day 3 onwards. The damage had been done by the time England got 578 in the 1st innings.
Rohit Sharma has shown in both the 2nd test and this 3rd test so far that runs can be scored on dustbowls if you adjust your technique to the conditions. It's not absolutely impossible to score. When people like Mark Waugh and others were bitching during the last test about the pitch, I do agree with Warney that both sides had to bat and bowl in the same conditions right from day 1 (remember the peach Kohli received from Moeen Ali?), whereas the team that won the toss and batted first in the 1st test got a massive advantage when it became simply a matter of how long they could occupy the crease on the first 2 days.
