Able but unreachable
The Indian team management's SOS call to Ranadeb Bose, Arjun Yadav, Ishant Sharma and Rakesh Patel is not the first such instance of players being drafted in the last minute in an emergency during an England tour
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
The Indian team management's SOS call to Ranadeb Bose, Arjun Yadav, Ishant Sharma and Rakesh Patel is not the first such instance of players being drafted in the last minute in an emergency during an England tour. Back in 1986, Rajasthan pacer Pradeep Sunderam, playing league cricket in London was called up as an emergency replacement for the Headingley Test but never made it. Why? Because he was apparently untraceable, much to his dismay. Stranger things have happened in Indian cricket, writes Sanjjeev Samyal in Mid-Day.
“There were nine days between the two matches. And Raj Singh Dungarpur, who was the team manager, even had my residence numbers. They could have called up my home (in Mumbai) and got my number in England.”
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo