GRAHAM Wagg says the spin is here to stay after finding yet another way to hurt the opposition.

The versatile 25-year-old completed his first five-wicket haul of the season yesterday on the second day of Derbyshire's LV County Championship match against Glamorgan at the County Ground.

But what marked this one down as unusual is that three of those wickets came from his more conventional fast-medium seam bowling and the other two were down to his left-arm spin.

Wagg has been bowling spin more regularly in recent weeks as he nurses his body through a number of niggles and says his successes have encouraged him to make it a permanent addition to his armoury.

"I haven't really taken it seriously in the past few years but when I was a youngster, I used to bowl it all the time," he said. "Bob Woolmer always used to tell me to work on it when he saw me in the nets at Warwickshire.

"I enjoy it and, at certain times of the year, at certain venues, it is needed.

"It's another option for the team if I can play as a seamer-batter-spinner-fielder.

"The captain backs me, the rest of the team enjoy it and I have a bit of fun out there while I'm bowling it – but this winter I'm really going to work on it hard.

"A few guys have done it – Andrew Symonds for Australia bowls off spin and comes up and swings it as well, so why not?

"I'm not saying it's going to play a big part in my career but there is something there to work with and now I've seen I can bowl and get these decent players out, I'm going to stick with it."

Spin is certainly easier on the body than seam for Wagg, who now has 47 first-class wickets this season.

He has been reported as having a shin problem, which has kept him out of the bowling attack occasionally, but that is not the full extent of the problem.

"The shins have been sore all year to be honest – and my back and my knees," he added. "It has been a stressful time for me this year, in and out of scans and not sure what's wrong with my back, but I have got on with it.

"I have been referred to specialists and they still aren't sure what it is, which is a bit worrying. The last route I want to go down is an operation but, if that's the case, it will have to be."

However it finally came, Wagg said it was a relief to take the fourth five-wicket haul of his first-class career after taking four wickets five times this season. His only regret was that it took Derbyshire so long to mop up the Glamorgan tail.

"I've had a lot of four-fors and a bit of bad luck, and I've not bowled as well as I would have liked in a few matches," he said.

"I'm just glad I've got that five-for under my belt eventually and it's come at a good time of the season for us, really.

"But we needed to wrap them up quickly and I think that's where we missed Charl (Langeveldt), because he's very good against the tail.

"Fair play to Crofty (Robert Croft), because he played well and should have had a hundred there and the other two let him down at the end but it was disappointing."

Croft was 89 not out in a Glamorgan first innings total of 348 after he and David Harrison put on 88, a record for the ninth wicket for the Welsh county against Derbyshire.

Derbyshire lost Chris Rogers for 30 and Paul Borrington for 17, both to Adam Shantry, and when rain brought an early halt to play, they were 82-2.