...taking all those wickets! It just isn't right for all these part timers pretending to be real spinners. Look...on any other day, under different conditions, you'd have played Hauritz differently and he wouldn't have looked so effective.
Ian Chappell speaking on the Australian selection with Alex Brown of Cricinfo went as follows -
AB: Just carrying forward from that - can Australia afford to go in with Nathan Hauritz? He has obviously struggled in the tour games, but if you play four quicks there is the issue of balance. Do you think they can afford to go with Hauritz? 
IC: I just don't believe that part-time spinners can do the job for you. They should have learnt the lesson after what they tried in India. That was an abject failure. You might get away with it on occasions, but not over the long-haul. Having been a part-time spinner myself, the thinking behind being a part-time spinner and a full-time one is poles apart. You shouldn't win Tests against teams by relying on part-time spinners, in my book.
I think the selectors have made an absolute of nonsense of what they have done with spinners. I am not just talking about Beau Casson; it goes back as far as when they didn't take Stuart MacGill to India as the second spinner - that was a ridiculous non-selection. I would have wanted to have Bryce McGain in England on the basis that England are renowned for trying to read things into legspin that sometimes aren't there. To pick him in the final Test in South Africa, when it is his first Test… there is always a chance that things can go wrong in a guy's first Test, which it did, but McGain is a better bowler than what he showed in South Africa. I think they have messed Jason Krejza around, and I think there has been poor selection as far as spinners are concerned.
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He's right though....some of the stuff Hauritz bowled should have been put away properly. I love Chappelli! I feel the same way about the hiatus Warney's retirement has left.
An unrelated comment - But what about the two spinners in tandem? Weren't they suppposed to be the best combo after M&M? But M&Ms aren't really spinners what?
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Howdy Soulberry,
Interesting reading as always.
Problem is, the Aussies don't have any spin bowlers, do they? They just don't. Hauritz makes the most of limited talent and that is all we can ask of any of them. At least he isn't Cameron White.
Hi Old friend!
Glad to always hear from you.
No...no spin bowlers yet with Australia.
I am not so averse to the suggestion by some that Warney should be under the baggy green once again.
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