At a venue historically renowned for favoring slow bowlers, Australia fielded an all-pace attack, and overlooked a spin bowling option for the third time in the ongoing Ashes. \u201cIt sucks, mate. I won\u2019t be careful, it sucks. Being a spin bowler I am obviously bias but I think we\u2019ve seen it for a while now, seen it coming in (Sheffield) Shield cricket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cWe see less and less spin bowlers coming into games, particularly in certain parts of the country and I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re now seeing in the Test arena. You see greener wickets, you see seam be the main source of wickets and it\u2019s such a shame because I think there\u2019s a really good piece there, a spot for spin bowling in Test cricket,\u201d Swepson told reporters after playing for Melbourne Stars in their Big Bash League (BBL) game against Melbourne Renegades at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Swepson, who has played four Tests for Australia, further said he felt sad for off-spinner Todd Murphy not getting a chance to play in absence of injured Nathan Lyon. \u201cIn other parts of the world it\u2019s massive, it\u2019s something I grew up on, watching Shane Warne around the wicket into pizzas (footmarks) at the SCG.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cIt would be nice to bring that back but the way it\u2019s going, at the moment, it looks like we\u2019re going further and further away from that with the wickets we\u2019re producing. I feel for Todd, he\u2019s a great bowler \u2026 I am definitely a part of the spin brotherhood, I\u2019d love to see it come back.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He also suggested groundsmen in Australia\u2019s domestic games may be deliberately producing pace-friendly surfaces to eliminate tedious draws. \u201cI think for me, we\u2019re too worried about the wickets flattening out and getting no results than we are it being a two-day Test or Shield game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cIt would be nice to bring that back but the way it\u2019s going, at the moment, it looks like we\u2019re going further and further away from that with the wickets we\u2019re producing. I feel for Todd, he\u2019s a great bowler \u2026 I am definitely a part of the spin brotherhood, I\u2019d love to see it come back.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t tell you the last time I played a Shield game like that so it\u2019s a real shame, I\u2019d love to see it come back that way. But somewhere in the country has to be prepared to do that and make those sort of wickets, and I don\u2019t know who is going to do that first, or whether it\u2019s a CA thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n