Kolkata: Daniel Vettori is willing to look past piling stats and see a bigger role for spinners in pink-ball Tests. "The spinners haven't come into play that much [so far]; it's mostly been about the seamers," Bangladesh's bowling consultant said on Wednesday. The Kiwi was, however, quick to point out that "spin bowlers play a big part in the nature of the game" and he sees them being "really important" in the first two sessions of the day.

Brushing aside suggestion that the extra coat of lacquer on a pink ball, often blamed for the spinners' lack of success, will come in the way, he said: "They all enjoy the SG ball for a start. So it has been enjoyable for the spinners to bowl with it."