Former Indian cricketer Laxman Sivaramakrishnan claimed that he was provided to work with Rahul Dravid as a part of the Indian teaching staff, nevertheless, the latter declined the glory because the leg-spinner was a lot senior to him.
Responding to a query on Twitter, Sivaramakrishnan wrote, “I offered my services to Rahul Dravid and he said I was too senior to him, to work with spinners.”
The leg-spinner performed 9 Tests for India and took 26 wickets at a mean of 44.03. However, he was a power to be reckoned with in home cricket, taking 154 wickets in 76 first-class matches. He is working as a commentator for cricket matches in current occasions.
I provided my providers to Rahul Dravid and he stated I used to be too senior to him to work underneath him – with the spinners.
— Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (@LaxmanSivarama1) March 22, 2023
Sairaj Bahutule is the present Indian spin bowling coach underneath Paras Mhambrey, who’s the bowling coach after Bharat Arun. Bahutule himself was a leg-spinner. Bhatule was appointed forward of the four-match Test collection between India and Australia. India received the Test collection 2–1. However, they misplaced the ODI collection by the identical margin.
India performed with three spinners within the recreation within the type of Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja within the third ODI in Chennai. Axar took a couple of wickets regardless of being costly, Kuldeep Yadav took three wickets and Ravindra Jadeja was economical.
However, regardless of the heroics of the spinners, Australia beat India by 21 runs within the third ODI on Wednesday to clinch the collection 2-1. Australia scored a aggressive 269 in opposition to India after opting to bat. Leg-spinner Adam Zampa (4/45) bowled Australia out for 248 in 49.1 overs. Australia’s top-order batsmen obtained off to a very good begin however didn’t make it large. Opening the innings, Mitchell Marsh top-scored with 47 whereas Travis Head scored 33 off 31 balls.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
