No spin, no worries: Marsh
AUSTRALIAN vice-captain Mitchell Marsh isn’t worried his side haven’t faced any frontline spinners in the only practice match before the first cricket Test against Pakistan starting in Dubai on Sunday.
The Australians piled up the runs in the warm-up game, with Marsh plundering 162 against a Pakistan A attack lacking a specialist spinner.
But they are set to face a different challenge in the form of dangerous leg-spinner Yasir Shah in the first of two Tests.
“’We’ve had a few leggies come across to train with us the last couple of weeks so we’ve faced plenty of leg-spin and I’m sure we’ll be ready to go,” Marsh said.
“We’ve prepared really well for this tour, so if we got to this practice game and we needed to face spin, we probably would be in a bit of trouble.”
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