Arthur Crabtree wrote:If England go with two spinners and Stokes as third pace bowler, then Wood would be one of two new ball bowlers. Who knows, that might mean he bowls a lot, or hardly at all. Recently, Indian pace bowlers in India hardly get the ball.
Traditionally, results tend to be hard to come by on pitches like Lahore/Karachi. More recently, the tests at Rawalpindi by memory have also featured pitches that are tough to get wickets on. A few recent pitches, rather than spin as they went on, just got flatter. Pakistan run out of time to chase down Australia's 500, but I think they were 450-6, so certainly could have done it (or lost, but the point is after being bowled out for 150 in the first dig, Pakistan then made a massive amount of runs on day 5).
Having two spinners in these conditions is less about attacking to get wickets, but simply to toil away getting the overs in.Its imperative if England do play two spinners, that they pick two capable of getting pressure on batters by making it hard to score.