Pitches don't sprout up out of the ground fully formed to either help movement off the surface or nullify it, and seam movement is off the surface not in the air (which is swing). Don't mistake the two to be the same. It's as manufactured as turning wickets, given that England used to have good spinners in the past but not anymore.Not necessarily. Depends on the local conditions.
By that I mean the normal conditions, not manufactured conditions.
* The Poms are still cheating ****s though.
Numbers don't lie though.That's nonsense mate - it's much more to do with the climate.
Ian Chappell once said in England when you win the toss, you look up not down, to decide whether to bat or not and he's right.
Broad and Anderson's numbers on ball by ball era (pre Bazball) grouped by amount of movement detected and the balls/wickets/average/SR for each group. Note how effective increasing seam movement is vs swing. To pretend that this is completely beyond the control of the curators and only in the hands of the weather gods is bizarre.