By Daniel Brettig
February 26th 2008 @ 2:18am
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Give Pakistan tour a spin, says Warne
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 [...]
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