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Ageing Australians
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Richard
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Not really - bowling wristspin to Warne's level has always been almost impossible and despite countless millions trying, only the tiniest few have ever managed it.
There's highly unlikely to be another high-class wristspinner for quite some time.
NZTailender
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Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
No, but nor does it help seamers.
Truth is, wristspinners can prevail on any surface - but wristspin is also an art that's exceptionally hard to bowl to First-Class, never mind Test, standard. So you can't expect to see Test-quality wristspinners very often.
And Test-class fingerspinners are obviously no use except on the right surface, the like of which haven't been seen regularly in Australia (outside The SCG and occasionally The WACA) for 4 or 5 decades.
Truth is, wristspinners can prevail on any surface - but wristspin is also an art that's exceptionally hard to bowl to First-Class, never mind Test, standard. So you can't expect to see Test-quality wristspinners very often.
And Test-class fingerspinners are obviously no use except on the right surface, the like of which haven't been seen regularly in Australia (outside The SCG and occasionally The WACA) for 4 or 5 decades.
pup11
International Coach
I think that holds true at state level too, the captains of almost every state side treat their spinners like dirt and they only have one in their team because of CA' insistence, and they are hardly dealt with any patience or care by their captains, so its hardly surprising that no youngster in Australia would be too keen to be a spinner, and that's a big problem and CA needs to tackle it quickly, because Australia definitely needs a good spinner in their test side if they want their bowling attack to be effective around the world.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
I'm inclined to think that it doesn't really matter how much patience or care is given to spinners if the surfaces don't help them and the spinners themselves are not good enough.
Patience has to be earned by bowling well.
Australian pitches have never been spin-friendly (not for 50-odd years at least) and Australia has only had very, very few spinners of calibre in the last 50 years. There's been any number of mediocrities play for them in that time. No reason to suspect anything different will happen now.
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