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It's hard to separate the quality of the home team from the quality of the pitches though. Murali and Vaas became expert at exploiting the very conditions that hindered visiting bowlers. That's to their credit.I reckon pitches in India have been as flat as anywhere since 2001/02 but not neccessarily Sri Lanka. And I know Pakistan was notorious for road decks as far back as the 1960s.
Of course, relative weight of scoring is not neccessarily a good reflection of flatness of pitch. Other factors (ground size especially, but also sometimes skill of home bowlers) will also impact on that.
A flat pitch at The ARG or Taunton (to pick two places notorious for them) will produce totally different patterns of scoring than a flat pitch at Derby or (until recently) The Oval. The former two are postage-stamp sized and the latter two nice and big.
Essentially, I wasn't actually trying to measure "flatness of pitches" by looking at that. Rather "ease of batting" was what I wanted to determine. That incorporates quality of attacks and ground size anyway. It's all one and the same when trying to devalue a batsman's career by using where he played his cricket.