This week can't pass without massive congratulations to Steve Birks and his team at Trent Bridge for providing a pitch which contributed to what has to be the most remarkable Test Match I've certainly ever seen.

With a green tinge on Thursday, the England bowlers, led incredibly by Broady in Jimmy's absence, utilised the pitch and the conditions to their fullest, making the ball swing and seam - so it became pretty much unplayable for the Aussie batsmen.

David Warner said after day two that it was like facing your first ball, every ball. It was almost as if it was swinging around corners.

And whilst of course the skill of England's bowling attack is the reason for the victory, the value of that pitch, offering perfect home advantage, shouldn't be underestimated.

Nor indeed should the pressure which top class groundsmen and greenkeepers find themselves under when the world's media are watching - with every commentator and columnist instantly an expert on pitches and how they effect the game.

And there was more evidence of media pressure on groundstaff this week, albeit slightly more indirectly, with some very interesting quotes from newly promoted Bournemouth FC chairman Jeff Mostyn.

He was quoted in the Independent as saying, "[The Premier League] told us to dig up our award-winning pitch and install undersoil heating. That would have had our groundsman phoning Samaritans: he loves that pitch more than his own family. I told Richard [Scudamore], ‘Have you been here before? We’re in a microclimate: our pitch never freezes.’ But he said it wouldn’t go down well with the other 19 clubs, so...”

It seems as though this change would've been forced on Bournemouth by the league, presumably at the behest of broadcasters, to guarantee the avoidance match cancellations. The fact that Bournemouth's pitch last season was shortlisted for the Sky Bet Championship Pitch of the season, didn't really seem to count for anything.

But that of course is the nature of the beast at the top level - TV offers such great rewards for clubs, chairman have little choice but to comply. One just hopes that the voices of the guys who know their surfaces will not be drowned out by the demands put in place by the cameras.