Across the board, in all formats of the game, spinners are taking more wickets.
Only Shane Warne (626) and Muttiah Muralitharan (565), both spinners, have taken more Test wickets.
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Against England's spinners, the required rate drifted to more than a run a ball.
That might be the reason why, in recent years, the majority of the bowlers with suspect actions are spinners, even though it would seem more obviously tempting for a fast bowler to throw, in order to gain extra speed.
It's a great irony that the nation that has produced more high-quality Test spinners than any other, India, only gets half the benefit of this change the recalibrated umpiring parameters, but not the actual system itself thanks to its opposition to the use of DRS. In fact, Indian cricket officials are even able to block the DRS from being used in multi-team tournaments in which India is involved.
Established in 1790, Hacienda Pinsaqui was originally a textile enterprise that employed more than 1, 000 weavers and spinners.
There is very little help for the quicker bowlers, while there is more than enough slow turn to assist the spinners.
Zimbabwe will also find the going more difficult away from home, particularly in Asia, because the spinners it cultivated during its years as a limited-overs-only outfit were containing bowlers rather than wicket-takers.
He might be a bit disappointed not to bowl with the new ball any more, but his role is to get a wicket before the spinners Graeme Swann and Michael Yardy come on, and he did exactly that against Sri Lanka.
But diagnosis, management and treatment of the more complicated cases or assiduous epidemiological data collection might not be such money-spinners.
Spinners Sachin Tendulkar and Piyush Chawla looked set to increase the stranglehold, but Cook demonstrated more potential for adapting when he slog-swept Chawla over mid-wicket for four and Bell pulled a Tendulkar long hop for a one-bounce four.
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