I've not watched this series much but I'm not sure it's a huge accomplishment going by what I do read/watch. While SA have had better batting line ups in the past, we've had better spinners in the past, and I've never seen a decent side struggle this badly with the bat against India's spin. You see teams go from 150/2 to 250 all out when the pitch gives the spinners more, but 15/5 or whatever suggests to me that something is not quite right. Like I said I've not watched enough, but it could possibly be a case of pitches that are unreliable rather than rank turners from day 1. IMO any pitch that is unreliable is a bad pitch. A pitch can have spin, swing, anything, but when you don't quite have an idea of what the pitch will do then it favours the home team's batting instincts to an obscene level. It's like when we used to visit WI and the ball would randomly move disproportionately off the turf due to cracks, or bounce low on the 2nd day. That's a poor pitch whereas Perth which is consistent but hard to bat on due to the bounce and pace is a good pitch IMO.
It has to be noted that SA have historically been the poorest players of spin in my time of watching cricket. Warne used to toy with them and I couldn't really consider it an achievement because they were so bad at facing it.
