Odean Brown's absence not a bother, says Bennett

JAMAICA'S cricket coach Junior Bennett says the team has sufficient potency in the slow bowling department, despite the omission of a specialist wrist-spinner in the 14-man squad competing in the NAGICO Super50 tournament in Trinidad & Tobago.

Odean Brown, arguably the region's most successful wrist-spinner in recent times, was ruled out after undergoing corrective surgery on his knee.

While conceding that a front-line wrist-spinner would be handy, Bennett said the composition of the bowling attack provides a good balance.

"We would want a leg-spinner and over the years we had Odean Brown. But he did an operation and he'll be out for a little while more.

"We have part-timers [spin bowlers] in terms of [Tamar] Lambert, [Nkrumah] Bonner and John Campbell, who really spins the ball. And we still have Nikita Miller," he told the Jamaica Observer.