India’s latest Cricketer – debutant – Cap no. 319 – moments of glory at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium at Chandigarh.
Test match no. 2621 – India has thrashed Afghanisthan by an Innings & 300 runs defeat.
In recent decade, Spin was all Ravichandran Ashwin &
Ravindra Jadeja – spinning out opponents, especially on home wickets. When Ashwin suddenly retired, Tanush Karunakar Kotian, the Mumbai offspin-bowling
allrounder, was picked as R Ashwin's
replacement in India's squad for the fourth and fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy
Tests.
The man of this post is MJ Suthar. Even without Ashwin, there was no place for a fourth spinner behind Jadeja, Kuldeep and Washington, if India continue to leave out Axar Patel. With Ashwin now retired, Jadeja rested, and Axar Patel dropped for the one-off Test against Afghanistan in New Chandigarh, there was a rare opportunity for an India spinner to earn a Test cap. Remarkably, the last spinner to make his red-ball debut for India was Axar himself, back in 2021.
At the time when I started watching Test matches it was magic of Bishan Singh Bedi – read that there were Vinoo Mankad, Babu Nadkarni earlier. Bedi was magical - Padmakar Shivalkar, Rajender Goel, Rajinder Singh Hans, B Vijayakrishna, S Vasudevan were unable to break into the National Team. After him, so many left arm spinners have played for India - Dhiraj Parsanna, Dilip Doshi, Raghuram Bhat, Maninder Singh, Ravi Shastri, WV Raman, Venkatapathi Raju, Sunil Joshi, Nilesh Kulkarni, Rahul Sanghvi, Murali Karthik, Pragyan Ojha, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadhav, Shabhaz Nadeem, Axar Patel .. …
So it was a toss between Vidarbha's Harsh Dubey & Rajasthan's Manav Suthar ! At this stage of their careers, they are as alike as two cricketers can probably be. Both are 23-year-old left-arm spin-bowling allrounders, born within 11 days of each other. Dubey has played 27 first-class matches; Suthar 29. Dubey has 133 wickets, Suthar 129. Dubey has scored 1026 runs at 25.65; Suthar 945 at 25.54. and both bat left-handed.
Manav Suthar got his chance this time and grabbed it with both bands. For Afghan, there was a debutant too - left-arm orthodox spinner, Nangeyalia Kharote.
Manav Jagdusakumar Suthar bowling looked all different in New Chandigarh. Showing lot of promise last afternoon, he plucked up three wickets, turned into a dream extended spell on day three. He finished with 6 for 33 as India bundled out Afghanistan for 152 and enforced the follow-on.
Manav Suthar has etched his name in the
history books by becoming the 10th Indian to take a five-wicket haul on his
Test debut. After performing consistently in domestic cricket and adding
wickets to his tally, the spin all-rounder had outstanding figures of 6/33 from his 22 overs,
which included 10 maidens. In the second
innings, he took one wicket only
8.6.2026
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