Lee has bowled on flat piches before (note: 1st day at Edgbastone - carted) but is always going to be vulnerable on slow pitches... basically because if you bowl from his (lack) of height you either need the ball to be doing something... or else you need to be a latter day Malcolm Marshall - which he ain't!

IN defence of Clarke... it seems highly likely that he's hardly EVER played on a slow and low pitch.... and as even McGrath struggles when there's no pace and carry.... it's reasonable to expect him to take some time to re-adjust.

Gillespie can be exonerated on the "carted" front:he's bowled well on the sub-continent before... and appears to have done a decent job again today: 2.8 an over is respectable on ANY pitch and suggests he's redicovered his Vaas-like ability to impose his class.

Warne? You can argue that he's played on more slow and low pitches than most... and that he's got a history of being vulnerable on such pitches (famously so on one early tour to India, but worldwide if the truth be told)... but he's generally thought to have mastered bowling faster and flatter to minimise the damage - e.g. some spells at Edgbaston and Old Trafford last summer... where he pretty much sacrificed all his normal menace in the cause of bottling up an end.

I'd probably back MacGill ahead of Warne on this track: one to watch.

Bottom line: any good batsman in world cricket would probably fancy this attack on a slow and low pitch... but as you say: this Bangladesh top order is delivering in style where in the past they may have somehow managed to muddle through or fail.