2017/18 Ranji Trophy: 5 players who failed to set the stage on fire

Pragyan Ojha

Not long ago, Pragyan Ojha and R Ashwin were India's spin twins in Test matches. Things were going in the right direction until the slow left-armer was caught for an illegal bowling action. The moment he changed his bowling action, he lost his rhythm and became less effective.

Ahead of the start of this Ranji Trophy season, Ojha's participation in the tournament was under the cloud as he was pushing for a move to Hyderabad from Bengal and Sourav Ganguly was reluctant to give him the green light for the switch.

The switch finally happened though and Ojha was back where his career took off, Hyderabad.

His comeback didn't go exactly as he would have liked as the discarded Indian pacer took just four wickets in five innings at an average of 71 and a strike-rate of 107 balls per wicket. Adding to this, his economy of 4 runs per over is the highest for any Hyderabad bowler who bowled at least 20 overs in the competition, which means he failed to keep the scoring rate down and at the same time, didn't manage to take wickets.