07-07-2017 23:04 via theguardian.com

Liam Dawson takes tentative steps from England’s spin conveyor belt | Barney Ronay

England’s search for the right spin option seems to have alighted on Liam Dawson as the next Ashley Giles, but he made a patchy start against South Africa at Lord’sWe counted them in – and we counted them off out again pretty much straight away. England’s search in the post-Swann vacuum for a spin bowler of Test match substance has been like a flicker book at times of pressed-men, fill-ins and try-outs. James Tredwell, Samit Patel, Simon Kerrigan, Scott Borthwick, Moeen A
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