tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post6253888243184641050..comments2024-03-29T08:20:35.668+00:00Comments on Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog: Leicestershire v Derbyshire previewPeakfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328174919897893268noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-18329325984324239542008-09-24T17:58:00.000+01:002008-09-24T17:58:00.000+01:00Yeah, good call Matt. Think we need to encourage s...Yeah, good call Matt. Think we need to encourage spin somehow and leggies do tend to offer something a little different, even if they can be expensive on occasion.<BR/>Thanks for the comment!Peakfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328174919897893268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-44259090479916600192008-09-24T16:30:00.000+01:002008-09-24T16:30:00.000+01:00I do hope we persevere with Lawson into 2009, rega...I do hope we persevere with Lawson into 2009, regardless of what he does in this match - I've never bowled it beyond messing about with the grips, but leg spin must be the hardest thing to just pick up and be successful with in a stop/start fashion. His one match for Middlesex was at Uxbridge (not the raging turner it once was)against the South Africans so I think they treated him unreasonably in ditching him so quickly.<BR/><BR/>I do think leg spin is coming back into fashion in English county cricket in a big way when you consider how many wrist spinners there were bowling in 2008 (Borthwick, Danish Kaneira, Imran Tahir, Gitsham, Marshall, Parry, Malan, Voges, Munday, Mushtaq Ahmed, Beer, Schofield,Salisbury, Rashid, Voges) - now not all of those were world beaters, and some were chinamen bowlers or firmly in the occasional class, but it must be the most amount of wrist spin bowled in an English summer for many years, and so more pitches may start to be prepared to take more spin and/or bounce in the next couple of years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com