Look overseas for spin help
Dean Jones has watched Australia’s struggles with spin bowling and has a few ideas for fixing the issue
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Dean Jones has watched Australia’s struggles with spin bowling and has a few ideas for fixing the issue. In his column in the Age he outlines his solutions, including a greater acceptance of overseas coaches.
Australia's biggest problem right now is that we don't have a decent spinner. On top of that, our quicks don't really understand how to bowl reverse-swing properly. If our two finger spinners in Nathan Hauritz and Jason Krejza are the best spinners we can produce, we must look for new spinning coaches because these guys are average at best.
The doosra pioneer is Pakistan's great offspinner, Saqlain Mushtaq. He has taught many budding Pakistani offspinners the art of bowling the doosra. We need to sign him up now and get him to Australia to teach Hauritz and Krejza how to bowl it. And fast! Saqlain taught Saeed Ajmal about three years ago and look what he did to Australia in Dubai on Wednesday.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo