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A pitch built to help your spinners will also help theirs, and they may be better at using it.
The line most hosts do not cross
There is a difference between preparing a surface that suits your strengths and preparing one that turns square on the first morning. The second produces two-day matches and unhappy broadcasters.
When it backfires
Home sides have lost more than one series on pitches they asked for. Conditions are an advantage only when your own players are demonstrably better at handling them.
Ask for a pitch that suits your bowlers. Do not ask for one that suits nobody.
A groundsman, on tournament preparation
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