13 August 2007

Off-spinner required for Sri Lanka

Interesting to hear the chat on TMS about who should go to Sri Lanka. Gooch agreed with me on the fact that conditions will be in favour of an off-spinner given all the left-armers playing...he thought Batty was probably better placed to take the off-spinning position than Swann. Apparently Swann does some "wacky pieces" on radio 5 which is why "he wasn't Duncan Fletcher's cup of tea". Anyone know anything about that?

Not one mention of Vaughan as an off-spinning option!

1 comment:

Mark Davis said...

No I don't agree that you need two or three spinners just because that's what history says. You need your best bowlers regardless of who they are.
Vaughan, Shah, Pietersen and Collingwood (in particular) are perfectly capable of providing back-up overs.