As soon as I come to post this, there's a stumping off a flighted delivery from Razzak which the batsman just completely misreads. The Bangladeshi spinners seem to be bowling well whenever they flight the ball, whereas otherwise they often seem a bit harmless; however, they seem to be trying to flight it more now. I'm starting to like this world cup, you know there's something going right when you have spinners on both ends within the first 10 overs. A bit like the Zimbabwean spinners, though, there's a few shorter and wider loose deliveries, but it's still quite entertaining. Naeem Islam seems to be bowling with a great line to the left wingers, angling it in very well combined with his spin away from them. I imagine that that's what left arm slows generally attempt to bowl against right handers. The minnow test sides seem to be playing a lot of spin, so hopefully they'll go far, although so far my favourite bowling attack has probably been South Africa's. It's sad to see that Collins Obuya has defected to the dark side, though, he was great back in the semi-final Kenya side of 2003, which really seems to have gone to the dogs in general by now (I do find it amusing when people use Kenya to argue that Associate sides should be removed from the cup, though).
Tahir was quite brilliant in that West Indies match. Really, especially considering that us leg-spinners are rather renowned for often being inaccurate (Grimmett seems to have been forgotten a bit), he was very consistently accurate, and seemed to have an impressive level of control over his deliveries. While there were a couple of looser balls, somewhat too wide outside off, which got punished by Bravo, two or so loose balls in 10 overs is still an impressive spell, especially considering that there were quite a few southpaws on the other side. Of course, his strength at the googly would also have helped there. It's also refreshing to see an aggressive leg-spinner, especially in present times. It'll be interesting to see how he develops; though West Indies isn't the strongest of teams, the bowling he gave in that match should really be effective against just about any side, so it's really more a matter of consistency. If he does manage to keep him up, it could be interesting to look more closely at his action. Botha was also great, getting quite a lot of spin, and Peterson isn't bad either, although he was a bit more loose than the others. South Africa with a great spinning posse? It's been a while since that's happened.
On the other hand, Australia still seems ironically devoid of good spin.