Why do clubs like Essex shrug their shoulders and assume that a lack of spin bowling is an inevitably in this country with nothing to be done to change things ? It happens because spin bowling is not encouraged in match play. If a county second eleven was packed full of spinners who bowled every over of the days play except one before lunch and tea no matter how ineffective they were you would have no seam bowlers. That is the situation we have with spinners, week in week out. No spinners is a self fulfilling prophecy.