Cameron White urges Cricket Australia to prepare spin friendly pitches - Cricket News Update
Former Australian Test leg-spinner and the incumbent T20 skiller, Cameron White, has urged the Cricket Australia management to be watchful while preparing wickets for the Sheffield Shield game if they want to produce world class Test spinners.
The 28-year-old leg spinner from Victoria urged the Australian ground curators to provide spin friendly pitches to the Australian bowlers during domestic games so that the bowlers do not find it difficult while playing on the spin friendly wickets
abroad.
White’s recent comments have come in the wake of recently concluded Sheffield Shield game between Victoria and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tasmania-c854 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), where the fast bowlers exploited the seam friendly conditions while the spinners kept struggling
for wickets all through the match.
"It's hard work to get spin into the contest when we see not only this wicket (MCG) but wickets around the country (suiting pace bowlers),” said the former Test spinner after captaining Victoria in a match which saw pace bowlers dominating the game.
In the Shield clash between Victorian bushrangers and Tasmanian Tigers, former Test pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jackson-Munro-Bird-c65187 scythed through the Victorian line-up to return with figures of 5 for 35 in their meager
first innings total of 94. Overall, the spinner could bag only five wickets in the whole match while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bird-c48123 returned with a ten wicket haul, conceding 96 runs.
Since retirement of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 has tried as many as 11 spinners but failed to find a strike tweaker and White reckons it is just because the conditions in Australia do not favour spin.
"One of the things that no doubt the Australian team has been crying out for is the development of a spinner over the last couple of years,” said White.
"But in first-class cricket, we keep dishing up dream wickets for fast bowlers. Then we go to play in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 and expect someone to come out and take eight wickets in a match to bowl a side to victory,” he added.
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