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The Ashes LIVE from 12No spinner: All-out pace could be the future in Australia
SEN • December 26th, 2025 2:05 pm
SEN Cricket’s Tom Morris thinks that we should get used to not seeing a spinner picked in the Aussie XI at home.
The Boxing Day Test is now the second time this summer where selectors have gone with an all-out pace attack, with Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland, Jhye Richardson and Michael Neser playing at the MCG as Todd Murphy missed out.
With pitches offering more to seamers around the country, Morris wouldn’t be shocked if spin becomes less of a proposition down under.
“This is going to be the future, if these pitches are going to be thinking,” Morris said on The New Ball.
“Maybe for two or three Tests a summer, Australia doesn’t play a spinner.
“If that is the case, it opens another space for your Richardsons, Nesers and these types.
“The only consideration in my view for the Australian selectors is picking the best XI.”
While not selecting a spinner in Australia used to be completely frowned upon, it has become somewhat of a trend for the home side, particularly in pink ball cricket.
Even if the reality may not be welcomed by spinners around the nation, Australia clearly know what they’re doing when only using pace, dominating the last three Tests where spin hasn’t played a part.
Those results came in the pink ball Test against the West Indies in Kingston (won by 176 runs), when Nathan Lyon was injured in Perth against England and limited to just two overs (won by eight wickets) and in the pink ball Brisbane Test against England, which was another eight-wicket victory.
