How Ashwin spun his way to 500 Test scalps

SUNIL SUBRAMANIAM would never place why he neglected to break into the Indian group in spite of being one of the nation's best left arm spinners in the mid 1990s.

It irritated him, however the agony fails to measure up to the delight his most famous ward, Ravichandran Ashwin, brought to his life, years after he had stopped playing cutthroat cricket, he concedes.

The 57-year-old, who showed Ashwin the subtleties of twist bowling in his early stages, invests wholeheartedly in saying that the senior India spinner "was destined to play Test cricket."

"I had a great deal of certainty that he would turn into a decent Test player and a quality Test bowler, initially a match-victory for the state then a match champ for India," said Subramaniam. "Around then, it was hard to say his process would be this long. Yet, it ended up being clear he would have a long vocation.

"I'd deceive to say we felt that he planned to wind up playing 100 Tests. Yet, I positively realize that we had a Test cricketer really taking shape, and a decent one at that," he added.

In spite of partaking in a genuinely effective vocation in five star cricket, Subramaniam is most popular as Ashwin's young life mentor, however he has no issues about it.

"At the point when I met him in 2007, at the Tamil Nadu Cricket Affiliation's bowler's camp, the excursion began there. We needed to find the up and coming age of bowlers.

"Gradually, he advanced from first class cricket to Test cricket, his bowling developed, and he comprehended how to concentrate on the wicket.

"At the point when you play top notch cricket, you have an alternate outlook contrasted with Test cricket. You carve out an opportunity to adjust to the climate, however he took no time by any means, and it seemed like he was destined to play Test cricket."

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