Test matches in the subcontinent tend to go to one extreme or the
other. Either you get a square turner on which the visiting batsmen
generally don't stand a chance or you get a wicket that is so placid
that the bowlers of both sides have no chance. When wickets swing to
the extreme like the one at Chepauk for the first Test, what you get is
a onesided contest in which the bowlers of both sides stand very little
chance of dominating the proceedings.

The runs batsmen score may
always be attractive but when you know they are getting them without
even having to try too hard, spectators tend to get bored with the
action.

I know the Chennai weather may have to take the blame for much of the way the wicket is playing.

The groundsmen have not had the opportunity to prepare the pitch by constant rolling and watering as they would have liked to.

I don't blame the bowlers for failing as they did in South Africa's first innings of 540.

The point everyone has to accept is Indian cricket does not