Emburey: Time to do spinners a good turn

By Richard Edwards

Bright futures: Somerset spin kings Jack Leach, left, and Dom Bess
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ENGLAND’S spin cupboard is bare – and John Emburey fears that re-stocking it may take a generation.
A lack of coaching support, coupled with an attitude to pitches that last season resulted in the likes of Somerset punished for producing turning wickets, have combined to create the kind of environment that was unthinkable when Emburey was coming through the youth ranks at Middlesex in the early Seventies.
Then, following the likes of Fred Titmus into the Middlesex side,...

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