The Ashes

[Josh1873]

Let's get it right, if that pitch was in India we'd have pages of chat about how bad it was. That was a shocker. Is that really the direction we're taking test cricket?

I've no idea on pitch preparation, but surely there's enough knowledge to predictably produce a pitch that has a good balance between bat and ball. 

No one wants to see 20 wickets in a day, but similarly no one wants to see 600 play 550 in a bore draw, either. 

I genuinely have no idea how they go about producing a pitch, but I'd have thought there's something you can do to make it more balanced between bat and ball?