And look at how foreign spinners do in Oz.K wrote:e.g. NZ v. Pakistan, 2nd Test: NZ played 3 spinners... Looked like it worked pretty well. Almost got the victory.K wrote:...lazzadesilva wrote:...
Otherwise every single bowler who ever toured the sub continent full of flat pitches would have broken down. ...
You talk about the subcontinent. There they can choose 2 or 3 spinners who can bowl 40 overs an innings each without breaking down. Can't do that in Oz.
Ajaz Patel 3/88 (17) & 0/32 (7) --- bit expensive both innings!
Michael Bracewell 0/87 (26) & 4/75 (20)
Ish Sodhi 3/95 (27) & 2/59 (18 )
"West Indies tweaker Roston Chase took only three wickets across the two-match series to begin the summer and had particularly expensive first innings, posting 0-117 and 0-140.
While South Africa's back-up spinner Simon Harmer looked promising on day one in Sydney, he finished day two at 0-109.
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Maharaj: "Obviously, you're probably not going to get as much spin as you're used to anywhere else in the world.
"The one thing you can work with is the bounce but also sometimes when you're behind the eight-ball, it's very difficult to bowl in a certain way and you bowl with spread fields."
(cricket.com.au)
The only wicket Maharaj took in the whole series was his bunny, FTB Smith.