DEVELOPING THE SPINNER’S CRAFT IS SUCH AN ARTFORM

DEREK PRINGLE

The season may feel very different with a shortened version of the Championship under way and restrictions on overs for some bowlers, but some things stay the same and one of them is a bucketful of wickets for Essex off-spinner Simon Harmer.
So far, there have been two rounds of the Bob Willis Trophy completed and Harmer has notched 20 wickets from the two matches Essex have played. That is 50 percent of the wickets taken after the defending champions won their opening two games.
Harmer has previous in this regard. In 2017, when Essex won their first County...

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