CHENNAI: If ever there was a side that used to be a scourge for spinners, it used to be Pakistan. Generations of Indian spinners — from Bishan Bedi to Maninder Singh to Harbhajan Singh — will have their stories of hard times against the likes of Zaheer Abbas, Salim Malik or Misbah-ul-Haq. But all that seems a thing of the past as in two back-to-back games in the World Cup, we have seen Pakistan falling against spinners.
While against India it was Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja, it was Adam Zampa who snatched life out of the Pakistan chase in Bengaluru. Now in Chennai, struggling to stay alive in the World Cup, they will have a trial by spin against the likes of Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Mohammad Nabi, and maybe Noor Ahmed.
