‘Was great opportunity for me to play Tamil Nadu-Delhi game’: Washington Sundar highlights significance of Ranji game for recent success

“The information that I besides got to vessel a batch of overs successful that crippled decidedly helped. I americium truly grateful for this day, I don’t deliberation I volition ever hide this day, (it was) precise special,” helium added.

Before getting a call-up successful the Indian squad for the 2nd Test, Sundar was representing Tamil Nadu successful a Ranji Trophy lucifer against Delhi. His show successful that lucifer wherever helium scored 152 runs portion batting astatine No.3 and took 6 wickets, convinced the selectors to telephone him up for the Pune Test.

“That has ever been a self-talk for maine due to the fact that I person ever wanted to fig retired things that would assistance maine to get better, assistance maine to support evolving arsenic a cricketer. That is the lone happening I person been focusing connected successful the past fewer years and I americium truly grateful to (the) deity for maine to beryllium capable to acquisition these kinds of situations,” Sundar said.

The wily allrounder connected Thursday took 7/59 against New Zealand which replicates the career-best figures of seasoned spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who helium bowled alongside successful the match.

“We communicated a batch and they brought successful a batch of qualities, accomplishment sets and experience. That truly helps for idiosyncratic who is playing on with them. It decidedly helped maine contiguous and it is peculiar to beryllium playing successful the crippled successful which some of them are portion of arsenic well. I anticipation we volition get to play a batch much games together,” Sundar said connected Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.