Bad pitches or bad bowlers?

Given all the talk of 'chief executive pitches', high scoring and inflated averages, I wondered how the best bowlers a decade ago would have managed today.

Darren Gough reckons the pitches are the same but the bowlers worse. I'll leave you to decide.

Top 10 Test Bowlers Today

1. Steyn- 844
2. Murali - 830
3. Johnson - 770
4. Ntini - 741
5. Clark - 737
6. Harbahjan - 735
7. Anderson - 710
8. Harris (!) - 669
9. Zaheer Khan - 650
10. Lee - 634

Average - 736

Top 10 Test Bowlers today 10 years ago

1. Donald - 885
2. McGrath - 874
3. Pollock - 870
4. Ambrose - 840
5. Murali - 805
6. Walsh - 785
7. Kumble - 779
8. Akram - 776
9. Streak - 740
10. Saqlain - 724

Average: 808