In what has become a trend now, the Indian team’s batters seem to be struggling with the spin, leading to their downfall.
Team India was poor in the first match against South Africa, where they embarrassingly failed to even chase down a target of 124. All the ex-players have slammed the batters’ capability to spin, and rightly so. The latest one is R Ashwin. In a video he said that the former players had better techniques, than the current Indian lot.
Previous era better equipped to play spin
“I am gonna stick my neck out and say in another game in an era where spin bowling was combated very well. I will take the names Amol Muzumdar and Mithun Manhas, who is the BCCI President, and I won’t take all the names, but Sachin Tendulkar in his prime, the God of Cricket,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.
R Ashwin miffed with India show
He added, that to win in India, the team will have to deal better with spin. It was a similar situation last year, where India succumbed to New Zealand 0-3, largely due to spin. “If these guys had played on the same wicket against spin, this game would have gone to four days. In a total of 16 batters, only three to four players have defended well. If you want to play on turning tracks, then your game against spin has to be good; otherwise, don’t play on such pitches as simple.”
Ashwin added that other teams are better equipped to handle spin than India. “Most Western teams are better than India now because they come to India, they practice it a lot more, but we don’t practice enough of it. But we are superior players of fast bowling in many other venues right now because we consider that as a challenge, but not this. That is the difference,” Ashwin added.
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