

Washington Sundar has been an incidental Test cricketer. It has been more than three years since he was in the reckoning for Tamil Nadu in red-ball cricket, but circumstances twisted and turned for him in unexpected ways, and there he was under the Gabba sun in January, smiling ear to ear in possession of a Test cap handed to him by Ravichandran Ashwin.
In Chennai this week, Washington fit right into Kohli's need for a Ravindra Jadeja prototype to align as closely as possible with India's home success patterns involving bowling options with batting abilities.
Like in the first innings at Gabba, Washington arrived with deficit-erasing duties at Chepauk, except this time it was far more daunting at 386 runs. His entry was also during India's sudden and