Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here. 

As a spinner you already have a battle just to justify your position on the Twenty20 team.

Most captains have limited sympathy for spinners. You often find yourself bowling well short of your full spell.

It's a battle just to let the captain keep you on when you went for a boundary or two. They do not have the experience to understand that this is not bad bowling.

Faced with a choice between two players of equal ability, most teams will go for the bowler that can bowl efficient medium pace; keep the runs down in his spell.

They don't know you are the match winner. That you have to speculate with slower bowling to accumulate wickets. Even in Twenty20.

So, don't make it easy for them to leave you out. You need to offer a team more.

No spinner should be batting at 11.

As a spinner you are an all-rounder.

You might think that's unfair. It's reality.

Unless you can bowl like Shane Warne, you also need to offer your team reliable batting abilities.

And even Warnie could bat.

He could catch too.

So, work on your googly, your doosra and your big turning leggies but, work just as hard on your batting and fielding.

It might just be your runs that keeps you on the team and give you the opportunity to show your spin bowling skills.

You might have to start down the order with a specific role to play to prove yourself. But a couple of hard-hitting innings that make you the finisher and you find yourself at number 6 with time to build an innings.

A side benefit to this is the captain sees you working hard and making a success and is more sympathetic to your bowling.

Quicks can get away with comical batting and average fielding. Not you.

Be the last guy at practice. Help the captain love you.

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