Australia’s selectors should attempt to pile as much slow bowling talent as possible onto the plane to Pakistan in an effort to re-build the health of the ailing spin brotherhood.

So says Cricket Australia’s recently-anointed “spin ambassador” Shane Warne, who today spent a full day with South Australia’s spin stable, including out of favour CA-contracted tweakers Daniel Cullen and Cullen Bailey.

Cullen, Bryce McGain, Stuart MacGill and Brad Hogg would likely all be in the squad if it were chosen by Warne, and he said an overseas tour together might be the sort of event to build a potent combination for the future, following a summer that has been largely barren for spinners.

“Maybe for Pakistan they might have three or four in there and all just work together, a few younger guys around the Australian side, but they’ve got to warrant that as well,” Warne said today.

“Hopefully we can have them perform consistently well in first class cricket, talk to captains, get their fields right, understand how it works and hopefully over coming seasons see spinners performing well.”

There was an element of nostalgia in Warne’s time on Adelaide Oval No.2 today, the scene of many of his tune-up sessions with mentor Terry Jenner during the early 1990s.

Australia’s spin bowling cupboard presently appears about as bare as it had seemed back then, only this time the task is made harder as the world has wisened up to the wiles of spinners after Warne made fools of batsmen for more than a decade.

Warne said he was trying to take a broad approach, quizzing captains on how they utilised spinners as much as the bowlers themselves.

“It is tough being a spinner the way the wickets are, the captaincy side of things, the way batsmen approach spinners these days, going after us and trying to whack us all over the park,” he said.

“There’s no quick fix, I don’t expect to bring out a spinner or two in each state and they’ll all take 200 Test wickets, it’s a slow process.

“I was very lucky, it was all fast bowling, fast bowling the West Indies, the didn’t play spinners that well, I played against India, Sri Lanka, it got to 1992 and then played against the West Indies and did okay, but it took me probably two or three times to get dropped to find out how important the game was to me.”

Warne’s advice to the Redbacks included the suggestion that leg spinner Cullen Bailey be allowed to bat at seven as part of a five-man bowling attack that featured three quicks and two spinners.

Such thinking would avert the possibility of one spinner needing to leave SA for greater opportunities, while also building on Bailey’s batting ability, as exemplified by his top score (54) for Sturt in Sunday’s Adelaide grade one-day cup final.

“With the make-up of the SA side there’s no reason (Cullen and Bailey) both can’t play – with the way Cullen Bailey can bat as well there’s no reason he couldn’t bat at seven,” Warne said.

“One of the struggles SA have had this year is not making enough runs so it might seem a funny way of dropping a batter to play a bowler, but sometimes the responsibility to make some more runs might actually help.”

© AAP 2012

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