What a damn nerve Buchanan has: Aussie wickets, year in, year out, without fail, offer so little to any normal bowler, on a spectrum from Matty Hoggard to Ashley Giles, that... to be honest.. they might as well all just stay at home. Year in, year out, Aussie tracks are a disgrace: a batsman's paradise on which seamers rarely, if ever, get lateral seam or swing movement.. in which no bowler is ever able to exploit a bit of uncertainty in the bounce to sort out poor batting technique and introduce hesitation about playing cross bat shots

The only people who fare worse than honest medium pacers on Aussie tracks are the finger spinners... who are so consistently unable to find purchase that they become all but redundant as strike bowlers and of limited value even as stock bowlers. Suits Buchanan fine as he has some leggies who like the pace and bounce.... but sucks for the rest of the cricketing universe.

For Buchananto criticise the Indian groundsmen from perparing a track that actually allows for a decent contest between bat and ball and offers some encouragement to slow bowlers on EITHER side is pretty damn rich: he can start taking the moral high ground when he's got his own house in order.