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    "excerpt": "New Delhi, Feb 17:\u00a0\u00a0Ace India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed the person from whom he learnt the skills to bowl the carrom ball -- a delivery through which he has bamboozled many batsme",
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    "editor1": "<p><strong>New Delhi, Feb 17:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Ace India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed the person from whom he learnt the skills to bowl the carrom ball -- a delivery through which he has bamboozled many batsmen across formats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ashwin said it was a person named SK who used to bowl the delivery with a proper action and extract drift, that too with a tennis ball when they used to play on the streets of Chennai.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;The first time I went to play a tennis ball game, I was batting. There was this guy who was bowling with a proper action, getting beautiful drift and getting the ball to go nicely out and in. Till today I can&#39;t find where the guy is but I haven&#39;t seen a better bowler who can bowl both in and out than him in my life. His name is SK. He was the one from whom I learnt that ball,&quot; Ashwin said on a Cricbuzz show.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The 33-year-old added that he would spend every morning with this friend, learning the art of the mystery ball, for 15 days.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Basically he was the one who made me look like an absolute idiot on that particular day. I was a big thing around the tennis ball circuit as a batsman then, so I said I need to learn from this guy. So I used to go every morning, and he used to come and teach me for about 10-15 days,&quot; he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Sri Lanka&#39;s Ajantha Mendis is touted to have introduced this delivery during his debut in 2008, earning him the tag of being a &#39;mystery spinner&#39; for quite some time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ashwin, who has picked 362 wickets in 70 Tests, is part of the India squad for the two-Test series against New Zealand which gets underway in Wellington on February 21.<\/p>\r\n",
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