Five retired left-arm spinners who could walk into the present day Team India unit

Rahul Sanghvi

Sanghvi was part of MI’s star-studded coaching staff

In a brief three-year international career, Sanghvi was handed 11 international caps – a solitary Test included. Always on the look-out for wickets, the Surat born spinner tossed the ball unusually high. The result was batsmen offering him repeated return catches.

Although he did reasonably well in the 10 ODIs that he played, with 3/29 against Zimbabwe being his best, he was dropped soon after India suffered a 37 run loss to the hosts at Harare in1998 and never recalled into the ODI squad again. He suffered a similar fate in Tests as well. On the backdrop of India’s 10 wicket loss to Australia at the Wankhede in the famous 2001 series, Sanghvi was dropped and subsequently slipped into wilderness. That said, Sanghvi will be remembered as a humble spinner with extremely strong good work ethics.