If the PCB is to act on this... maybe they could offer Shahid Afridi the job of pitch preparation: he clearly understands what a Test wicket needs far more clearly than the groundsman who produced this turgid strip... and any scuffing done prior to the start of the Test would have been perfectly legal :-)

On a more serious note: is this the deadest excuse of a pitch that has ever been seen in world cricket? It seems singularly reminiscent of the one on which Lara broke the world record: Harmison bouncers seem to be coming through at a nice pace for smacking out of the ground... not even Flintoff can get deviation off the seam... there's been no bounce or turn for Giles and Udal... and all in all, it's sucked.

From the pitch reports on how it's wearing... this particular baked mud strip also seems to be wearing as if bound together with araldite: no change from the start of play and no prospect of any, either. If so.. I doubt anything ANYONE does is really going to have much effect!