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The left-arm spinner, who took seven wickets on his Test debut, will be a key player when Joe Root’s side visit Ahmedabad
In all the noise about India’s most crushing defeat of England on home soil, of Ravichandran Ashwin’s miracles with bat and ball, of England’s rotation policy, of Moeen Ali, of the state of the wicket, of Virat Kohli’s on-field expressiveness, of Rishabh Pant and Ben Foakes, one man’s debut rather slipped under the carpet. Left-arm spinner Axar Patel, lean and lanky, with an air of Ravi Shastri about the moustache, marked his Test debut with five wickets in the second innings and the prize of dismissing Joe Root twice.
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