'Sharmila heads my list of all time spinners' {image-sharmila.jpg thatscricket.oneindia.in}In the pages of the doomsday book are continuously recorded illustrious names; but as often as new names are written, the old names disappear. Only a few stand in illuminated characters, never to be effaced. To this elite group belonged the pint-sized left-arm spinner extraordinaire, Sharmila Chakraborty.Hailing from a family where sports would have been the last thing on their minds, Sharmila's success story could well make a good best seller. West Bengal's dominance in the domestic circuit from 1973 till 1985 was primarily because of players like Sharmila. If I were to be entrusted the task of naming...
'Sharmila heads my list of all time spinners' Sharmila was the favourite amongst the Kiwis when they toured India in 1976 and when we toured that country in 1976-77. The entire Indian team and most of the New Zealand players had learnt a Bengali song from her and this was invariably one item of any programme we had to...