Depends on how slow. Also, on a green deck with reasonable pace, even if the ball's moving, there's runs to be had. I don't see it as well established at all, every pitch is different. If you play on enough types of pitches you see which ones are tougher to score off and which ones aren't and green decks are not the toughest.
For me, that's absolutely it. Against Australia, very few of Kallis' knocks have been influential on result of the match. Kallis would just drop anchor and the **** at the other end had to make the play. In fairness, SA have had plenty of players of that ilk (goes a long way to explaining why they've got such a poor record against Australia as a team) but the point is, players like that don't win you games as often as a bloke whose batting by its nature forces the opposition to react and change their game, especially when the opposition are equally matched. Dictating the play doesn't just result in runs for you either, it lifts the bloke at the other end.
It's not just knocks against Australia per se which influences opinion on Dravid because he's had more than his fair share of poor ones too. It's when and how he's gone about his runs. It's not a technical or statistical thing but Dravid's knocks have just been more influential in wins than Kallis', on the ones I've seen.
Kallis doing well against India vs Dravid doing poorly against SA is neither here nor there for me. It's fairly clear the Saffers bowling attack has been vastly superior to India anywhere in the world, India's wins at home and away generally driven by their batting being able to suffocate or chase down anything the opposition sets. You'd take facing Kumble/Zaheer/Harbhajan/Pathan/Sreesanth any day of the week on any pitch over Donald/DeVilliers/Pollock/Steyn, home conditions or no.
excellent points.
some other semi related thoughts on this: i think that the stats show that it is harder to bat in saf than anywhere else even for the home batsmen. is that perhaps connected to the fact that saf have had fewer top drawer ie kallis, lara, tendulkar type batsmen?
another point, if saf is that much harder to bat in, being used to batting there confers a massive advantage to home players and thus visiting players who do well there should be considered truly great, especially given the quality of bowling that has been at the disposal of the saffers.