'The wicket changes every year'

Have the featherbed wickets played a damaging role?
I've been hearing a theory that the pitches are not as fast as before. But if the wickets are always fast, bouncy, and there is enough movement for the bowlers, do you think they will learn to bowl? If the bowler wants to do something, he will have to go about finding various ways, and then he will learn to bowl.

Would you call the Antigua wicket a fair one?
It is a slow wicket and good for batsmen. This year it was too slow. Yes, it is flat, but there are factors, which people do not know of, that cause it. I am not really the curator, I just supervise the wicket for Test-match preparation. After June last year, this Test against South Africa was the first match played on the Recreation ground. How can you get a faster pitch if you don't utilise the surface? And every time we've had to prepare for a Test match, we have had to use a different surface to the year before because the ground is used for other activities; you have to re-surface the wicket each time. So every year you get a different type of wicket.