Spin Pipeline

[jeesh]

The objective of the thread is same as that of the pace pipeline thread. To discuss the progress of spinners apart from Shakib, Razzak and Elias Sunny Sunny in Under 19, club cricket, divisional cricket, BPL, A Team etc.

Fortunately Bangladesh is blessed with a good spin pipeline. It can be also unfortunate because sometimes talented spinners are overlooked despite their strong showings in domestic cricket. Currently many countries are finding it hard to unearth quality spinners. Australia for instance had to resort to a 42 year Hogg because the likes of Michael Beer, Doherty are simply not good enough. Its debatable but i bet countries like Australia, South Africa, England, Zimbabwe wouldnt mind having some of our emerging or fringe spinners. Bangladesh in comparison can produce SLA's effortlessly.

But are these spinners good enough? Many would argue they are not, and they would struggle against quality batsmen, and in less spin oriented pitches. This could be true. But if you remember the performance of our spinners in BPL, you will probably agree the talent and potential is there. The likes of Elias Sunny, Arafat Sunny, Saqlain Sajib performed admirably against some of the best T20 batsmen in the world. The next BPL will give these spinners another chance to prove themselves.

BCB also made a smart move by appointing Saqlain Mushtaq. But this appointment will not bear any fruit until Saqlain is allowed to work with 10-12 of our emerging A Team, Under 19 spinners for 2-3 months.

It is also important BCB tries to nurture spinners other than SLA's to improve variety in our attack. Unfortunately there arent many OS or LS candidates.