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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chandikagunawardhana" data-source="post: 5367777" data-attributes="member: 11539">Saqlain helps Hauritz prepare for The OvalAustralia have drafted in Saqlain Mushtaq, the former Pakistan and Surrey off spinner, to work with Nathan Hauritz in the build-up to the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval. Saqlain attended Australia's training session at The Oval on Monday where he is understood to have imparted advice on local conditions and the art of slow bowling.Saqlain was recently recruited on a short-term basis to work with New Zealand's spinners ahead of their tour of Sri Lanka, and has previously expressed an interest in working with first-class and international teams in a consultancy capacity. He is widely credited with developing and perfecting the doosra; a delivery Hauritz has experimented with in the nets in recent seasons.Hauritz is considered the front-runner for Australia's final bowling berth in the Ashes decider, with Clive Stephens, Surrey's operations director, predicting turn for the last two days of the Test. Hauritz claimed wickets with successive deliveries during a practice match against England Lions in Canterbury on Sunday, and is showing few ill-effects from the finger dislocation he suffered at Lord's last month.</blockquote>

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