Turning track will see spin to the fore for both sides

Friday 20th August 2010, 2:29PM BST.

Tim Duke, who actually opened the batting for Guernsey in the last inter-insular at Grainville, has been in outstanding form with the ball this season for CI League leaders ORs. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0991564)

IF EVER there was a clear indication of what to expect from a cricket inter-insular, it is Jersey’s selection of two spinners in tomorrow’s squad.

It was not that long ago that if they picked one it was merely seen as a token gesture in among all those run-in-and-hit-the-deck seamers that littered their highly successful teams through the 90s and into this century.

Now, though, it is the way to go, especially on a Grainville track that has become renowned as a ‘Bunsen burner’ in recent times.

Such is the quality of Ben Stevens that he would have been selected anyway, but the willingness of the Jersey selectors to throw in fellow young left-armer James Faudemer emphasises that the way to success is to go slow.