Hauritz could be a waste for the third Ashes Test: Curator

LONDON: Edgbaston curator Steve Rousesays the pitch for the third Ashes Test would be a paradise for the pace bowlersand Australia would not need services of spinner Nathan Hauritz."With the conditions like this, Nathan Hauritz could be a waste.Australia should play four seamers I would think. You wouldn't see a spinnerdoing an awful lot of work here unless he was good enough to tie an end down andnot get carted for five or six an over. "It doesn't spin much hereat all this year. Our spinners are going at 60 or 70 a wicket," Rouse was quotedas saying by the 'Australian'. But Australian skipper Ricky Pontinghas already said that he won't be fooled by Rouse's pitch report after beingmisled by a similar report in the 2005 Ashes series. However, Rouseclaimed that he is not playing any mind games and said it would still be a majorgamble for Ponting to bowl first like he did in 2005. "You have tobe a brave person to bowl first, it can always backfire on you can't it?" Rousesaid. "The forecast isn't great, we have got showers right the waythrough the week and for at least the first three days of the Test. With therain and the bad weather we've had, and we haven't had any warm sunshine."There is a lot of moisture underneath. It will be a typicalold-fashioned English seaming wicket. But good batters can adjust to theconditions and you don't get to play for Australia or England if you can't bat,"he added.