Playing an extra spinner or not is a million dollar question, says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mickey-Arthur-c1969 – Cricket News Update
Mickey Arthur, the coach of the Australian team, is all praise for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 at Chennai but admitted that playing an additional spinner might have benefitted the Kangaroos.
In order to play according to their strength, the hosts prepared a spin-friendly track at Chennai and went in with three regular spinners in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RA-Jadeja-c2238. Ironically, all the 20 Australian wickets in the Chennai
Test were picked up by these three.
However, quite surprisingly, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nathan-Michael-Lyon-c78822 and decided to attack the home team with three genuine pacers. The decision did not turn out to be a wise one, although Pattinson bowled out of his
skin in the first innings and grabbed a five-for.
Some of the former cricketers and analysts believe that the team management should have selected http://www.senore.com/Cricket/XJ-Doherty-c2804, who looked in good form during the practice matches.
Arthur is extremely disappointed with the outcome of the first Test as they were humiliated by eight wickets. The coach believes that the result could have been different if http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 had the services of an extra spinner to accompany Lyon.
“That's going to be the million dollar question,” Arthur said. “It's easy in hindsight having a look at how the wicket ended up, you probably would have liked two spinners on there, however, our quicks took most wickets. We didn't get a massive return from
spin in this game. I thought James Pattinson was outstanding, so it's a difficult dilemma.”
The second Test of the all-important series is going to commence from Saturday at Hyderabad. There is a likelihood that the visitors are going to make some changes in the playing eleven. However, Arthur has made it clear that the team management will decide
about the strategy after closely monitoring the surface.
The coach added, “I think going to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792 we'll have to look at conditions before we make a proper decision. Looking at the way it ended up probably two spinners [would have been good].”
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