Warne offers caution in handling spinners – Cricket News Update
Australia’s greatest spin asset of his time, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Keith-Warne-c89672, was adamant that the strength of the current national team lies in the pace bowling department. He went on to advise Cricket Australia not to expect too much from spinners, since their primary task is to supplement the pacers.
Since retiring from the game in 2007, Australia has struggled to find a suitable replacement for the 43-year-old. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stuart-Charles-Glyndwr-MacGill-c91433, who remained Warne’s understudy for all those years, was expected to fill the void but his premature retirement a year later again left the country in a state of confusion.
Having used as many as 11 spinners after that, CA finally settled on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nathan-Michael-Lyon-c78822, who has featured in 13 of the team’s previous 14 Tests. Warne has argued a similar lines, stating that the only way forward is to keep faith in a spinner. He further wanted the authorities to accept the fact that slow bowlers will offer nothing more than support in the current system, where the side is blessed with plenty of fast bowling resources.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 has plenty of depth to count on.
However, for Warne http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472hat doesn’t make a spinner’s role less significant, claiming that they will certainly get the chance to perform when pitches offer turn in the latter days of a Test match.
"We're very lucky that we've got some super quick bowling, a great corps of quick bowling," Warne said. "It might be an era where the quicks dominate and the spinner takes a bit of a backward role and just does his job. When the time comes, when the pitches start to rag, whether it be Adelaide on day five or Brisbane on day five or Sydney - although Sydney hasn't turned for ten years - we get on a wicket that starts to really turn, that's when it's payday for them and they go 'hang on, it's my turn now'."
"We've just got to have a bit of patience with them and let them develop," Warne added.
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