England expects as Australia fight to save face at Durham Both of them will play, though, if the Australian selectors add up the figures of Xavier Doherty - one for 91 off 17.4 overs - and come to the realisation that England have been merrily milking him. No matter his christian name, Australia's left-arm spinner does not have the X factor. England, on the other hand, should play a left-arm spinner. Graeme Swann's right elbow has to be rested ahead of the three Tests against South Africa, even though England have not clinched this one-day series, and James Tredwell has been called into the squad as reserve off-spinner; but Samit Patel should play instead. "It's been a dreadful summer for spinners," Tredwell said. Equally correctly, he added: "I have toyed with things, and doosras and things like that, but they don't come overnight. I still toy around with it, but ultimately if you bowl your stock ball really well, that's the key so I have tried to focus on that. His stock ball, unfortunately, while turning plentifully, does not bounce, and bounce is what dismisses international batsman, hence his bowling average of 50 after five one-day internationals for England. And hence Patel. Patel was tidy enough to get away with 10 overs for 42 in the one-dayer at Riverside against India last year. Moreover, should today be the day when England's top-order batting for once does not deliver, Patel is equipped to do more than supplement Craig Kieswetter and Tim Bresnan in the middle order. And "tidy" is as much as a spinner can be on the slow grassy pitches that have prevailed this so-called summer. Even Swann has laboured to beat the bat, never taking more than three wickets in a game this season since his opening championship match for Nottinghamshire against Lancashire. His six Test wickets against West Indies, for all their various left-handers, came at 47 runs each. Still, Tredwell doffed his cap to the man who, like a latterday Russian saint, has revived orthodoxy. There was a time if you didn't bowl a doosra or something like that you might not even get looked at. He [Swann] has come in and shown if you bowl properly, and do it really well, and spin the ball hard, you can still do really well at the top level. That certainly spurred me on and made me believe that I could get to the top. It was at Durham in 2009 that England won their only match out of the seven one-dayers. Now they expect to beat the top-ranked ODI country.