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In the aftermath of Australias defeat in Pallekele there has been a raft of advice about how better to tackle the spin threat posed by Rangana Herath and Lakshan Sandakan. Ian Chappell and Ashley Mallett have had their say, so too Allan Border and even Simon ODonnell.A more contemporary figure with plenty of learnings about how to deal with spin bowling in Asia is the former captain Ricky Ponting, who had to learn the hard way through successive poor tours of India in 1996, 1998 and 2001. Like many Australian batsmen, Ponting did not take to the task naturally, and has admitted his troubles stemmed from a lack of suitable practice at home.What was difficult about working on playing spin in Australia in the off season, particularly in Adelaide, was, we were doing it all in the indoor nets and it was so false, Ponting told ESPNcricinfo in 2013. You could run down the wicket without any fear at all of getting stumped or one spinning past the outside edge. You just had the freedom to hit the ball wherever you wanted to.In the nets there I was a pretty good player of spin, but when you got out into the middle on Adelaide Oval or the SCG, where it used to spin a lot, against two of the countrys best spinners [Tim May and Greg Matthews] it was a different game altogether. It was right-arm offspin out of anything that troubled me the most.Eventually, Ponting sought the advice of Indian players, notably Mohammad Azharuddin, who spoke about reading and dealing with length as the most critical weapon in a batsmans armoury when facing spinners on turning pitches.On the truer wickets it was okay because you could get away with it, but the one thing I learned about playing spin in India ... the first couple of tours were horrible, but the last few tours I had there where I actually understood what I was trying to do a bit better, I actually had some success, Ponting said. It was all about not getting trapped to good-length balls. Not trying to predict where the ball was going to spin to. It was about trying to hit it before it spun or [well] after it spun, and thats what the good Indian players always did.Thats a concept that Australian batters dont have to think about because the ball doesnt spin very much in domestic cricket here. Even our current blokes, if you look at the struggles they had against [Graeme] Swann in the last Ashes series, it was because youre just not brought up seeing and playing quality spin, and more importantly playing it in conditions that actually favour the bowler. Even with our practice facilities in Australia you dont get that very often.The concept of not getting trapped to a good length ball should resonate with Australias players, given the high number who fell lbw or bowled in Pallekele. Decisive footwork, either forward or back, is important to reading length, as Ponting saw from Azharuddin, MS Dhoni and others.If you watched the way he played, he was always out in front, flicking his wrists, and for us that was so foreign, Ponting said. Dhoni does it really well as well. Hes not actually a great player of spin bowling but hes got the technique there where they work the ball around and never get caught at bat-pad or done on length. When we go there we always get caught at bat-pad because were predicting where the ball is going to go.But yeah, I first heard it from [Azharuddin], he talked about getting to it on the half-volley before it has the chance to spin or get back in your crease and wait for it fully spin and play it from there. It sounds pretty easy but its difficult to do in the heat of battle against good quality spin bowling. But the technique makes a lot of sense.By way of a cross-reference, the former Test off spinner Gavin Robertson was counselled in how to bowl on the subcontinent by Erapalli Prasanna. Revealingly, Prasannas advice centred upon using length, accuracy and changes in pace to stop decisive footwork, and lock batsmen on the crease to good length balls - just as Ponting had been advised to try to avoid.Prasanna talked about how youve got to understand a batsman, Robertson said. You want to try to lock the batsman on the crease with the amount of spin youve got on the ball and your pace and dip. Youve got to combine that to make sure the batsman feels like if he leaves his crease to take a risk, its going to drop on him and hell lose the ball.So hell search quickly to defend, and that will cause him to feel nervous about leaving his crease, and thatll start to get him locked on his crease. Then youll get him jutting out at the ball and jabbing at it with his hands. 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Webber, who is fifth in the championship, earned his second pole from the past three races and 13th of his career.Colin Montgomerie believes Danny Willetts Masters victory wont be his last major title, while he feels Jordan Spieth could be haunted by his back-nine collapse. You saw Willett smiling and accepting what was going on out there and he was the only one that was accepting what was going on really.He was the worlds No 1 amateur, won European Tour events and then came third in the WGC events at Doral, so he has been building up to something very special. This is very special indeed. Willett carded a bogey-free 67 on Sunday To play a bogey-free round on Sunday with five birdies and no bogeys is exceptional golf. I really do feel like theres more to come from Danny Willett and we certainly havent heard the last of him, thats for sure.I played a few rounds with Danny towards the end of my European Tour career and there was always huge ability and talent there. He did always believe he was going to succeed.I believe what was very important on Sunday though was that he was playing with Lee Westwood and Billy Foster. He felt comfortable in that group with them and playing with them, so it was like a European Tour event in a way. He wasnt playing with a no-name American that he might have felt uncomfortable with. I think this will be very difficult for Spieth to accept and to take forward. Colin Montgomerie It wasnt just the tee shot at 16 that helped him secure victory, but it was the putt to follow that was special..dddddddddddd A lot of people missed that, but he banged it in there straight.Then at 17 he was out of position after the second shot, but what a chip shot that followed. Viewers watching on Sky Sports would have had no idea how difficult that was, so thats why Billy gave him the thumbs up and all credit to him.Thats the sort of day they were having together, they were egging each other on which was super for both of them. Hes going to go to the US Open now full of confidence. Spieth presented Willett the Green Jacket Its very easy to say when people win their first major that theyre going to win more and more, but I really do think he is because of his attitude as well.SPIETH WOESYou can talk about Rorys back nine here, and then how the very next major he went and won at Congressional for the US Open, but I think this will be very difficult for Spieth to accept and to take forward.To fly in the coach showed signs of panic and you could see all week there was edginess about him.He was shouting at the ball and talking to the ball, but the problem was that everything was going right. The bogey on 10 was because he was right, the bogey on 11 was because he was right and then the quadruple bogey at 12 he was right again.Ive had it a few times where you have either thrown it away or people have beaten you and it is difficult to accept. Will it affect him going forward? It will be interesting to see. 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