Anderson encourages future pitch-doctoring following England's Ashes success

How many series has India won in Australia? How many has Australia won in India?

All Auzzie cannot win anywear but Oz Chicken come home to roast. India Number One

Jingoism has its limits. and this ronan dude is just unbelievable. such one sided view on every topic. its like australia is the most pious country in the world and all other are crooks

We're still whining on about this are we? Still blowing up headlines? Looking for an explanation we can live with? It's all still really, really, really unfair? Some of you are still waiting for the apology you so richly deserve? Really? Ronan?

Yep, true. Sure, traditional Aussie pitches favour the Aussies, and that's natural: it's because we're used to playing on them. That's the advantage of home conditions. That's a right sight different, though, to what England did to their pitches in the first two Tests, where they went out of their way to make them as dead as they could because that was perceived as our team's weakness after seeing us lose spectacularly in the UAE. When they realised after Lords that this only worked if we didn't bat first, Cook pointedly said, "I'd like to see English pitches now." Lo and behold, we've got very green, seaming English decks for the rest of the series. Nothing like that happens in Australia.

It's slightly unethical but the best way to stop pitch doctoring is to pick a team that can adapt to all conditions. a balanced attack of quicks and spinners, and versatile well rounded batsmen willing to apply themselves. There is a reason pitch doctoring doesn't work against great teams.

Nudge knows the score...

Warne didn't get his wickets at the Gabba because of big spin. He's said a thousand times, his favourite ground to bowl on was the Gabba purely because of the bounce. To say he got his wickets at the Gabba was because of big spin is a load of crap.

I didnt say they were spin friendly just that they spun way more during warnes time than before or after. And Warne was one of the greatest and he had in his team some of the greatest batsman as well so any comparison between bowlers is pretty stupid. Im in no way saying that Warne is not awesome and great and rad just that the Gabba was more conducive to spin when Warne was in our team. Im all for jingoism but we have to be a little non pratty sometimes.

"did we all just think that our grounds, especially the Gabba just started spinning way earlier when we had Warne because he was that awesome?" Yep, it was exactly because Warne spun the ball harder than pretty much anyone in history and also because he was "that awesome" on hard Aussie decks. If the Aussie pitches were doctored to favoured spin so much during Warne's career (as you suggest) then how come during his career every visiting spinner struggled massively - even guys like Murali, Kumble, Harbhajan etc. Why didn't these champion spinners run amok on the supposedly spin-friendly Aussie pitches doctored for Warne's benefit? Warne was just a master at exploiting the extra bounce in Aussie decks, similar to the way that Lyon does. Lyon, obviously, is not in Warne's league. Yet he has easily outbowled every visiting spinner the past few years because he knows how to exploit the bounce of Aussie decks.

Anderson said: “When we go to Australia, they prepare the pitches to suit their team." Really? When was the last time that one of the Australian pitches changed significantly in character, to the benefit of the Aussies? The Aussie pitches changed in character last summer but that was actually to the benefit of the visiting Indians, with the Aussie pitches much slower and lower than normal.

Anderson was 'unapologetic' was he? Had he something to feel guilty about? And he 'admitted' did he? If you bothered to read the original article he has said the same thing as Strauss and cook have said on several occasions. That is that yes they spoke to ground staff but they don't order anyone to do anything, as far as I'm aware no one has ever denied this. Anyway, like bert said already, when we come to oz the shoe will be on the other foot and england will have to deal with the austrailian pitches. And of course, it will be our turn to whinge about the nasty austrailian groundsmen :)

There's no problem with England producing very English wickets, but the weird, dead ones at Cardiff and Lords, working against traditional English conditions, were a bit odd. When Aussie wickets are all performing normally, unlike last summer against India, it makes a series interesting because there's something different about the wicket each Test. When you come to expect that it'll be the same engineered conditions at every ground, I find that a bit boring to be honest.

England had to bat on the same wickets and showed that they were prepared to apply themselves for much longer periods, and choose from a more sensible array of strokes. If Australia’s batsmen hadn’t gone out and batted like chumps it wouldn’t even be talked about.

We did it for years, did we all just think that our grounds, especially the Gabba just started spinning way earlier when we had Warne because he was that awesome? Dont get me wrong if you did think that i could almost understand it but everyone has always done it and we wouldnt even be talking about it if our batsman could bat.

I think the idea that the away team wins all tosses has merit, because then you could prepare your worst and the opposition has the choice. Its happening anyway.

Something Australia doesn't do enough of either! What's with the dustbowls when India come here? Unfortunately, I think the administrators are more afraid of the money lost on a 2-day test than they are worried about losing a series, so the pressure is on for the curators to prepare pitches that will help matches go 5-days rather than ones that favour Australia that much. It's always a bit of a chicken and egg thing though. The home advantage comes playing in conditions that the players are used to, which generally means playing in conditions that are pretty much normal, standard conditions for that country!

No issues with the m preparing pitches to suit, we need to be good enough to win in all conditions. We'll return the favour when they visit - fast bouncy tracks