If you couldn't help noticing coach Karsan Ghavri on television last week, sitting amidst his Saurashtra players as they made progress in their Ranji Trophy final against Bengal in Rajkot, you were seeing a man of 50-plus years experience in first-class cricket.

Ghavri is not considered one of the greats of the game, even though he was the first Indian pacer to claim 100 wickets in Test cricket (he bowled left-arm spin occasionally). Rarely do cricket fans recall how he dismissed Australian captain Greg Chappell on both occasions in India's victory in the 1981 Melbourne Test.