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- Off-spinner Saransh Jain, 33, has earned his maiden call-up to the Indian Test cricket team.
- His father Subodh Jain, a former Ranji Trophy player for Madhya Pradesh who could never play for India, taught him the basics of off-spin while battling mouth cancer, once writing him a note saying the better he played, the faster he would recover.
- Despite being dropped from the Madhya Pradesh Ranji Trophy side even after taking five wickets on debut, Saransh kept performing, taking 16 wickets in the Duleep Trophy, a strong 5/49 in its final, and helping Madhya Pradesh win the Ranji Trophy.
- The selection, announced on a Tuesday while he was at a Hanuman temple, fulfils a 12-year-old family dream.
What to watch next
- Whether Saransh gets a place in the playing eleven and how he performs in his maiden Test.
- Whether his father Subodh's health improves as he had written in his note.
- How the new off-spinner fills the spin-bowling gap in the Test side.
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Named India · Australia · BCCI Domestic · Hanuman Temple · Indian Test Team · Madhya Pradesh · Ravichandra Ashwin · Saransh Jain · Shubhman Gill · Sri Lanka · Subodh Jain · Washington Sundar
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