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Originally Posted by jeesh
Two types of spinners usually do well in T20's.

A) Your skilful spinners with good variations, stock deliveries. In other words an Ashwin or Ajmal or Narine

B) The enforcer spinners. The clever, intelligent bowlers who ball with terrific accuracy, control, but most importantly mentally strong. They are brought in early to prevent onslaught or choke in the middle overs. Shakib, Hafeez, Ravindra Jadeja,

And then you get guys like Afridi who are neither very skillful nor enforcer type, but yet are so successful.

A quick peep into the all time T20 wicket takers would give a strong idea that T20 is more of a pace bowlers game.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/con...ds/305211.html

Afridi has good variations.