Chin Music
State Vice-Captain
I'm not saying they were so brilliant, I'm just saying that they understood the conditions and bowled to themI'm still not entirely sold on this. If those two were so damn good, why weren't they selected for the First Test? Yes they bowled well, but I've got a feeling our spinners would've been picking up a lot of cheap wickets against Crawley, Pope, Stokes etc too. Pakistan generally had one bat in their middle order who was willing to get his head down and get properly stuck in. Smith showed a brief glimpse of that but even by the second innings he'd been dragged down by the others.
'and maintained their consistency in the way that ours didn't. Perhaps it was the workload that did for him, but Leach looked shot by the 3rd test. I agree that both of the Pak spinners were lucky not to play on the road of the 1st test otherwise they would have probably had their performance dragged down and been less lively by the end of the series.