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Harsh Dubey — the spinner who predicted Virat Kohli’s wicket — named in India squads for Afghanistan series

Harsh Dubey — the spinner who predicted Virat Kohli’s wicket — named in India squads for Afghanistan series

“We took a wrong turn one day when my father and I were going to buy my fourth-standard school books,” Harsh Dubey told The Indian Express. “I came across cricket practice at Ruby Club and asked my father what it was. He explained that’s where cricketers were made, and I got hooked.” That wrong turn was in Nagpur, 2010. Dubey was nine. On Monday, he was named in India’s Test and ODI squads for the series against Afghanistan – the destination that wrong turn pointed toward all along. The path there was built on sacrifice that was not always his own. His father worked with the CISF, a transferable job that kept uprooting the family. When Harsh was deep into his age-group cricket, the transfers grew distant. “He decided to quit the force for my career,” Dubey says. His mother, a teacher, was up at five every morning, packed his lunch, left for school before he returned from training. “I have seen how much my parents sacrificed their personal lives for me,” he says. “When …