Jenner: England have better spin bowling talent than Australia

[George.Hinton]

There was an article on the bbc recently where Jenner said England have more and much better spinners than Australia. Interesting and surprising comments to me.

I think England wil have some world classs spinners soon - as we say in Worcester,
the proof is in the pudding. Gareth Batty recently took 7-23 and Panesar is impressing in India.

Btw, I should introduce myself - I am Chris Hinton's cousing thrice removed. I lived in Brooklyn, New York for a long time but only recently I have moved back to England.

 

[archie mac]

Welcome

Do you have a link to any articles re- the Jenner comments?

 

[George.Hinton]

Welcome

Do you have a link to any articles re- the Jenner comments?

Its is mentioned in teh recent article in BBC cricket about england's new spin bowling coach. I will try to dig it up.

 

[George.Hinton]

Here it is

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4689446.stm

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Batty took 7-23 against a West Indies domestic team didn't he? Also, Panesar hasn't really done anything of note in India purely on stats.

Australia have a better spin bowling attack in my opinion.

 

[archie mac]

Here it is

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4689446.stm

Thanks for that.

I don't know it that will relate into any Test bowling super stars, but would be great for cricket if England could find a leg spinner of Test class. The last one I can think of would have been Doug Wright

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Got a link, by any chance?

I find this a very strange comment. Leaving Warne and MacGill out of it (even though both are likely to be around for several more years), South Australia alone has two extremely promising spinners coming through right now. In a few years I think Australia will be doing okay in that area.

edit: whoops.

 

[steds]

Got a link, by any chance?

Scroll up to the fourth post. Only a passing reference.

I have spoken to (Australian leg-spin coach) Terry Jenner at length and he argues that what we have at junior level in terms of quantity and quality far outweighs what they have available in Australia.

 

[Nate]

Four posts and already doing better than his couz.

Welcome mate.

 

[steds]

It isn't Chris?




Well I'll be. I only looked at the avatar.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Over in Sri Lanka, there were a few guys from England on an ECB funded trip learning more about spin to bring back to their academy.

Jenner is a bit of a strange unit, from all reports. Reputation has been made to be fantastic because of his relationship with Warne, but I've heard a lot of other people don't find him much use at all. And doesn't have any time for someone who wants to bowl leg spin in a different manner to Warne.

 

[social]

Over in Sri Lanka, there were a few guys from England on an ECB funded trip learning more about spin to bring back to their academy.

Jenner is a bit of a strange unit, from all reports. Reputation has been made to be fantastic because of his relationship with Warne, but I've heard a lot of other people don't find him much use at all. And doesn't have any time for someone who wants to bowl leg spin in a different manner to Warne.

Particularly not left handed anyway

 

[howardj]

Seems strange. Australia have Cullen, Bailey, Casson. There's hardly a dearth of spinners coming through the ranks.

 

[social]

Seems strange. Australia have Cullen, Bailey, Casson. There's hardly a dearth of spinners coming through the ranks.

Think the article refers to "juniors."

Surprised if these guys or Panesar, for example, meet that definition.

 

[Francis]

Great news! I mean of course he's talking about underneath talent... but it's great news for the future.

 

[Neil Pickup]

From what I've seen of Jenner, he is the dictionary definition of a one-trick pony and I'm not sorry that he's clearing off back to Australia soonish. I'm not at all sure how he's managed to get paid for four years to do the same workshop incessantly. Really, a video or DVD would have been a better investment.

I'd also very much like to find out where these junior spinners are, because they're not in East Devon - we are still very much almost all seam.

 

[George.Hinton]

I'd also very much like to find out where these junior spinners are, because they're not in East Devon - we are still very much almost all seam.

They're all in Worcester e.g Mark Lawson or in Illeterate Essex

 

[Neil Pickup]

Just out of interest, can you explain to me why your location is Worcester, your profile timezone is Central US Time, and you're connecting from an IP address in Melbourne/Aus?

 

[George.Hinton]

Just out of interest, can you explain to me why your location is Worcester, your profile timezone is Central US Time, and you're connecting from an IP address in Melbourne/Aus?

well my company has sent me on a work assignment to Australia and I grew up in Brooklyn.

 

[open365]

I'd also very much like to find out where these junior spinners are, because they're not in East Devon - we are still very much almost all seam.

Up here,every other bowler is a bloody spinner,and they're all crap.