World Cup 2019: Ranking the spin contingent of all the teams

#8 New Zealand

Sodhi and Santner

New Zealand has only two regular spinners in their squad, leg break bowler Ish Sodhi and left-arm orthodox bowler Mitchell Santner. Santner is more of a steady spinner than an attacking option. He has picked up just five wickets in his last 10 ODIs, a scary number in prospect of his importance in this team.

Ish Sodhi’s record is much better with 15 wickets in his last 10 ODIs. For a leg-spinner, he has achieved a decent economy rate of 5.50 in his last 10 matches but has been in and out of the team, with the pacers making more of an impact.

With only two regular spinners in their squad, one of whom is not a regular member of the playing eleven, NZ could have a tough ask at a later stage.

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#7 Australia

Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa

Australia has a little variety in their spin attack through Adam Zampa and Nathan Lyon. However, with Nathan Lyon unable to cement his place in the team, the onus will be on Zampa to strike with his leg-spin with Glenn Maxwell chipping in with some off-spin in the middle overs.

While Zampa has been in terrific form this year with 21 wickets in 12 matches at an economy of 5.33, Nathan Lyon is more of an economical bowler and is not a strike bowler. In the 25 matches he has played, he has taken only 26 wickets which could come to hurt the Australians on a turning pitch.