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A 21-year-old left-arm spinner of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, Zanden Jeh recently earned his maiden Australia A call-up for the series against Sri Lanka A—facing the land of his heritage at the international level for the first time. Ironically, it’s the same land his father and grandparents narrowly escaped following the brutal anti-Tamil violence of July 1983. The surname “Jeh” is a shortened form of “Jehoratnam,” adopted by the family during their life in the diaspora. Zanden Jeh, who also wor