India, March 11 -- Cricket has rarely witnessed bigger leg breaks delivered at such flat trajectories like that of Yuzvendra Chahal. Or the carrom ball that Ravichandran Ashwin deployed so well to spook batters in IPL? There was a time when Washington Sundar was expected to bowl like Ashwin, albeit with bigger scores to back. Further back, Kedar Jadhav often used to jar batters with his slingy action, though batting was his main strength.

Around hypotheses and hopes were spun several combinations, sometimes to check the runs, sometimes to take wickets. Occasionally both boxes were ticked, but not with the level of consistency required to win ICC tournaments.

Like Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, hitting it off in red-ball cricket but not so ...