Sandeep Warrier finally gets his India colours

One of the best pacers for nearly a decade

It has been a long, agonising wait for Sandeep Warrier. It finally came to an end on Thursday night: he is now an India cricketer. Thirty may not exactly be the right age for a pace bowler to make his international debut. But surely it is better late than never. And there were times when Warrier wondered whether all his hard work had been in vain. Ever since making his First Class debut nine years ago, he has been talked of as a bowler with great potential. He has played for the India-A teams and in the IPL too, but when it came to the national duty, he didn’t even make the squad.