Hauritz becomes a great inspiration

Robert Craddock writes in the Courier-Mail that Nathan Hauritz may just be the best thing for Australian spin since Shane Warne.

There's a famous photo of a national under-19 carnival in the late 1990s, when Warne was in his prime, containing a group of Warne wannabes – young spinners with blond streaks, ear-rings and big dreams. None of them progressed further than grade cricket. Very few leg-spinners ever do. The message was that Warne was a freak.

Hauritz, by contrast, is not. He is inspiring people partially because he is everything Warne is not. Spin bowlers around Australia learnt in a big hurry they could never be the new Warne. But there would be hundreds of young tweakers at this very moment who feel they could one day be the new Hauritz.