Australian leg-spinner, Adam Zampa admits Australia's attitude towards spinner in Test cricket is not great. He reveals, the board's towards spinner has not been really great for the spinners. Australia has only been able to win just 3 ODI matches out of their last 13 games. Despite their poor run in ODI, the new Australian team is yet to win an ODI match against England in the 5-Match ODI series.

Adam Zampa who is Australia's number one leg-spinner since the past two years was dropped from the team for the 5-Match ODI series against England. On the face of it, Australia has no frontline wrist-spinner in the team.

While Adam Zampa feels he has not performed very well lately, he has represented Australia in 31 One-Day international matches with grabbing 42 wickets in his International stint for the team.

When talking about his exclusion from the team, Zampa added "It's been a frustrating 12 months being in and out of the international team," he tells Cricbuzz. "It's due to lack of cricket. T20 has always been considered my strongest format and since the IPL last year, I've reckon I've only played seven or eight T20s in 12 months."

Now the wrist-spinner is preparing to play for Essex in the Vitality T20 Blast, he acknowledged, "This is a good opportunity for me to get 14, 15, 16 games in straight," When I was bowling my best I was playing Caribbean Premier League, the Oz T20s and IPL all back-to-back. The more you play the better you get.

"I feel like I'm still learning but you actually have to play to get better. It doesn't really matter what cricket you're playing. I find even playing club cricket is a good opportunity for me to work on some things. Playing cricket is a short life-span so I'm just trying to get as much in. I obviously want my spot back in the Australian team." 

"With a long tournament in England [next year], the wickets are going to slow up and become used so if they do want a legspinner and I am bowling well, I do well for Essex so they can see I have done well over here, I think that's a positive for me," he says.

The newly appointed head coach of Australia, Justin Langer has been a constant support for the wrist-spinner,  "He was pretty busy and he had the time to ask how it was going so that was pretty cool" - and the Essex stint is designed to restate his credentials ahead of an important summer back home.

"The attitude towards spinners in red-ball cricket in Australia is not great," he says. "There's a lot of leeway for batsmen that miss out. They get more opportunity. I'd come straight from a T20 tri-series against New Zealand and England - I played only one game in that - and I bowled OK and scored runs in the [state] game but it wasn't enough to keep my spot for the next two games.

"It's a frustration. I want to play back-to-back games. I want to get better and I just feel like I haven't really got that opportunity. My career average in four-day cricket isn't great but the last two season I've got 50 wickets in 15 games. Bowling on drop in wickets in Australia, that's improving."

Following the ball-tampering saga in Cape Town, Adam Zampa who will feature for Essex in County cricket said "Everyone makes mistakes, he wasn't surprised about the strength of the reaction back home given the high standards expected of Australia's cricketers from the media and public alike but feels for the players involved. "If that was me, I'd be devastated as well."

"I just thought cricket was going to change a lot when Phil Hughes passed away, the aggressive side of it," he says. "I don't think it really changed that much which is probably the most disappointing part for me. I don't play my cricket like that at all. I just play."

He is one of a growing band of Australian cricketers to embrace veganism. Zampa talks about how good he feels about becoming a vegan "It's one of the best decisions I've made, My father went vegan a long time ago and I was just like 'Dad, that's ridiculous'. But then once you look into it, the impact farming has on the environment, the animals, we are ruining the resources we have and we are ruining the world. If you were to try and take kids to slaughterhouse, there's no way you would be able to do it but it's ok to feed them the meat. That doesn't make sense."

 "The Australian attitude towards it is just like 'Mate, you need to have a beer and a steak'," he says. "And that's just the way the Australian culture is. Once you get passed that, you don't get too angry about it. There would be times when someone in a cricket team would say that sort of thing. I'd get angry but I know what I am doing is right so I wouldn't have it any other way."

With the 2019 World Cup around the corner, a wrist-spinner like Adam Zampa definitely can bounce back to regain his spot back in the team. His upcoming period at Essex is a vital chance for him to remind Australia's selectors of what he can do.