Parvez Rassol is not the only spinner in India or abroad who has benefited from Bishan Singh Bedi’s tips and placed the former India captain prominently on cricket’s altar. One remembers left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi indulging in thanksgiving after a heroic 10-6-6-5 performance against South Africa in the 1999 LG Cup at Nairobi.

And of course there was England’s Monty Panesar and Aussie Jason Krejza, who claimed an eight-wicket haul on Test debut in Nagpur 2008. Going by Rassol’s Day One utterances at Chennai where he is representing Board President’s XI against Australia, he is in awe of Bedi (who coached him at Jammu & Kashmir).