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Spin doctors rush in to cure Indian cricket.
(From Agence France Presse)
A school for spinners in India? Sounds farcical as the country has always been envied for churning out quality spinners.
What was considered a joke three decades ago has now become a serious issue as India recently made an earnest attempt to revive the rapidly-declining art of spin.
Former spin wizards rushed in from every part of the country to pool their experiences at a "Spinners' Panel" in Calcutta on Friday in a bid to redeem the image of Indian slow bowling.
"We've to groom youngsters to revive the art of spin. It's a fact that only a few quality spinners are coming up these days," said former leg-spinner Bhagwat Chandrasekhar.
Mediocrity has replaced quality since the retirement of the famous spin quartet of Bishan Bedi, Chandrasekhar, Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan two decades ago.
The decline has been so alarming after the famed foursome had quit the scene that only three spinners -- Anil Kumble, Ravi Shastri and Harbhajan Singh -- have managed to grab more than 125 Tests wickets in the past 20 years.
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