Freelance Cricket Club has been away for a little while – don’t worry, it’s not artistic differences – but we are making our return from New Zealand with a chat with the Black Caps spinner Ish Sodhi.
Sodhi is not your average cricketer. For starters, he’s a leg-spinner, but not many of them can claim to have had their hair cut in the seat next to Anil Kumble (Sodhi’s hero) or have given a TED Talk on their journey into the game.
Sodhi was born in India before growing up in south Auckland and his route to leg-spin was slow and rambling. He began bowling fast, then met Dipak Patel, the former New Zealand spinner, aged 10 and took up “violent leg-spin”.
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He first played for New Zealand back in October 2013 aged 20, having been
Source :- theguardian
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