Another Aussie pitch, another road.
They'd have to be the worst pitches in the world atm. And to think they were the best 20 years ago.
This is why Australia struggle immensely overseas. They go from batting paradise to spin, movement and swing and look like absolute muppets to a man.
Australian cricket fans are like Indian cricket fans and that means the pitches must ensure that the home side has very little chance of being beaten. Which is fair enough. Home advantage and all that. Can be taken to extremes at times like India for South Africa this year.
Australia formula: fast, bounce but true bounce, and flat, no movement. Australia can afford to bury about 5 seamers a year on its road pitches. They have so many fast bowlers. So they have no qualms about burying Rhino, Johnson, Pattinson, Bird, Bollinger, Starc, Siddle, Lee and whoever else post Stuart Clarke. Might even bury Cummins one day.
India: a choice of a roads for its batting line up to flex its muscle through to day 1 turners if the opposition do not have good spinners so Jadeja, Aswin and Mishra can flex their mucles.
English pitches give any side with nibblers and swing bowlers a chance. But most often India and Sri Lanka do not. And Pakistan sometimes has them banned or dropped. Imprisoned. But a good foreign seam attack has a chance in England. The question becomes canvisiting batsmen handle it.
