Does Jeetan Patel not have some sort of English ancestor England can call on ? Was very suprised when he chose Warks over NZ.
Why play for NZ against good spin-playing batsmen when he can play against English batsmen who seem to have no clue about spin and just try and hoon the ball out of the park all the time because they run out of ideas.
It is the same with football. Why bother to learn technique? It is all about the 'big'un' surely...?
Useless was an understatement. Some of those batsmen should be ashamed. I have seen better batting against spin at club level.
Patel is
NOT Murali, nor Warne. He is not even Stuart McGill, Graeme Swann or Daniel Vittori. He is a very average spinner bowling at even more average batsmen. Simple.
PS. I support Middlesex. We have Ollie Rayner... Sums it up really!