3 Indian spinners whose careers faded away prematurely

India is a country known to produce great spinners. Right from the spin quartet of the 1970s to Kumble and Harbhajan to Ashwin and Jadeja, India never found themselves short of quality spin bowlers. These men bamboozled many veteran batsmen across the globe with their mystery and guile and will be remembered as the greatest to have ever played this game.

Since last few years, the supply of quality spinners from the domestic circuit has gone down considerably as India is becoming a fast-bowling nation with every passing day. India is not producing as many good spinners as fast bowlers in today's times.

Hence, in recent times, there have been quite a few spinners who have faded away from the international scene after showing some promise in the early part of their career. Some of these spinners are not even regularly playing domestic cricket and hence have no chance of an international comeback.

Let us take a look at 3 Indian spinners whose careers have faded quickly.

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#3 Rahul Sharma

The tall leggie was seen as the reincarnation of Anil Kumble when he first arrived on the international scene in 2011. Sharma's spell of 4-0-7-2 in an IPL game against the Mumbai Indians in 2011 was once the most economical spell in the history of the league. That game changed his fortunes and gained him a lot of recognition.

Rahul made his international debut later that year against the West Indies and played 4 ODIs and 2 T20Is for India. Things went wrong for the leg-spinner in 2012 when he was accused of consuming a banned substance at a rave party.

Fortunately, that didn't end his career and Rahul found himself back in the scheme of things but without any noticeable performances. He was dropped after the Sri Lanka series in July 2012 and has not played the IPL for 4 years as well. Rahul continues to remain out of reckoning without a glimmer of hope of a comeback.

#2 Parvez Rasool

The Jammu and Kashmir off-spinner has been the best to come from that state in recent times. Rasool came into limelight in a warm-up game against Australia in 2013 where he picked up 7 wickets which helped him secure an IPL contract with the Pune Warriors.

Thereafter, he was a part of India's tour of Zimbabwe later that year when India opted to try out new faces. However, Rasool didn't get a game on the tour and had to wait for his chance. He finally got his ODI cap in June 2014 against Bangladesh.

He played one ODI there and a T20I against England in January 2017 but that was it for his international career. At the moment, Rasool's chances of a comeback look dim and he is without an IPL deal for two years now.

#1 Pragyan Ojha

The left-arm off-spinner was a vital cog in India's spin-bowling contingent in the 2010-2013 period. Ojha was a bowler with a simple, fluent action who believed in keeping the ball in the right areas to get wickets. On occasions, Ojha has opened the bowling for India in test matches along with Ravichandran Ashwin.

Sadly, Ojha's career seems to have come to an uncanny premature end as he has not represented India for almost 5 years now. Ojha's inability to bat made India prefer Jadeja and Ashwin over him on overseas tours. In 2015, he was reported for suspect bowling action and has not been the same bowler in the remodelled one.

He has played 24 tests and 18 ODIs picking 113 and 21 wickets respectively. With India having 4 spinners making their mark, it is unlikely that Ojha will be picked again. Ojha's last appearance came in November 2013 in the same test when Sachin Tendulkar retired.