Is there enough wrist spin in Warne’s land?

For the T20 World Cup, India have opted for one wrist spinner (Chahal) and two finger spinners (Ashwin, Axar). In a land where Warne demonstrated his breed can be deadly with top spin & overspin on fast & bouncy pitches, India will hope they don't rue dropping Bishnoi

- Arani Basu

The memories of Shane Warne are bound to sweep across venues even as Australia gets busy hosting the T20 World Cup over the next three weeks. The mystique around Warne's leg-spin will never cease in a land that has forever been deemed as a paradise for fast bowlers. He had revolutionized the art of wrist-spin in international cricket in the 1990s and he lived just long enough to see his tribe hold its own in the shorter formats of the game.

Warne will remain an obvious case study for any spinner, especially those travelling to Australia. He defined the potency of a wrist spinner. When the wave of wrist-spin swept across limited-overs cricket from 2018, he wouldn't stop gushing. At the forefront of that wave were Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav. India's emphatic success in the middle overs through wrist spin prompted every team to groom at least one in their ranks. Wrist spin became the prescribed tonic. Spinners were no longer meant to just contain with the white ball.