New Delhi, Mar 7 (PTI) Sunil Subramaniam could never quite put his finger on why he failed to break into the Indian team despite being one of the country’s best left-arm spinners in the early 1990s.

It rankles, but the pain pales in comparison to the joy his most illustrious ward, Ravichandran Ashwin, brought to his life, years after he had quit playing competitive cricket.

The 57-year-old, who taught Ashwin the nuances of spin bowling in his formative years, takes great pride in saying that the senior India spinner “was born to play Test cricket.” “I had a lot of confidence that he would become a good Test player and a quality Test bowler, first a match-winner for the state then a match-winner for India,” Subramaniam told

Source: PTI News