This squad has three spinners but in reality it is two batsmen who bowl a bit of spin in Moeen Ali and Samit Patel, and a luxury leggie in Adil Rashid. The ECB’s own studies show that it takes around 10,000 hours of bowling to master the art. James Anderson bowls so brilliantly in the sub-continent because he has learned through years of exposure how to bowl on dead Asian tracks but Moeen is learning on the job. For example it took a tip from umpire Kumar Dharmasena at Lord’s last year during an India Test to help Moeen bowl with more pace (he told him to grab his pocket in his follow through with his non-bowling arm).