But for a team to lose 83% of its wickets to the slow men over five Test matches is almost unprecedented.
The ICC has the power to ban captains for slow over rates and Ponting ran the risk of receiving a one-Test suspension had he stuck with his pace bowlers, given the slow rate they were managing.
The car was quick at Valencia but that was no real test because it is primarily a slow-corner circuit.
However, Mr Neate stressed that the study had confirmed that a PSA test could not distinguish between aggressive and slow growing forms of prostate cancer.
Millennium's test detects melastatin, a skin gene that may slow cell division, and thus inhibit tumor growth.
Nielsen admitted that his team were concerned that a continuing slow rate might lead to skipper Ricky Ponting being banned for a Test match.
Having achieved his run landmark in only his 60th Test, Pietersen gave a catch to extra cover off Shakib's slow left-arm and the pressure increased in the next over when Paul Collingwood was trapped lbw on the crease by Hossain.
The slow left-armer, omitted from England team that drew with India in the second Test at Trent Bridge, staked his claim for a recall at Headingley next week.
Even Daniel Vettori, who had such a stranglehold over England for much of the Old Trafford Test, could not build pressure against Pietersen and Ambrose, not helped by the slow surface and failing to record a maiden.
On a test run in an alley across from the office, the vehicle lurches forward to a slow trot as engineers nervously walk alongside it in case the gyroscopes fail and the cycle tips.
However, Ponting is confident he has enough slow-bowling cover with leg-spinner Smith and vice-captain Michael Clarke, who has 21 Test wickets.
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