ODI World Cup 2023: India's Test specialist Ravichandran Ashwin wouldn't possibly have envisaged that in six weeks time he would be summoned for a two-match trial against Washington Sundar, nearly a decade and half junior to him.

Close selection calls are par for course when it comes to World Cup squads. But just two weeks before the mega event, the Indian team management has called the two off-spinners for the three-match series against Australia to keep a ready back-up option in case Axar Patel's quadriceps tear doesn't heal on time.