I can understand why the grounds produce flat Test pitches. I sit on the board at Headingley and hear about the financial pressures on counties. As long as we have this system in which they have to pay vast sums to the England and Wales Cricket Board to host Tests, then the counties' priority is to fulfil business interests. Five days of cricket results in more ticket sales, pints of beer and pies sold. The counties are working for themselves not the England team. I am sure they would love to produce pitches that could help England to win in three days but that would hit their bottom line, and with debts to pay and a county team to run that is just not feasible any more. It will only change if the ECB introduces a rotation system for hosting Tests.