Always play a spinner. Always. Always, always, always.
It offers variety; a change of pace that might unsettle the batsman. Maybe the odd ball will turn more than you think.
Or maybe – just maybe – a batsman who’s untroubled by pace will, for some inexplicable reason, be totally unable to play spin on that given day. He only needs to get one ball wrong, after all.
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