R Ashwin had a powerful outing in Australia, when Team India’s senior spinner produced a medical show with the ball and stood as much as the duty, when required to play the proper second-fiddle with the bat.
The 34-year-old maintained the spectacular kind within the following Test sequence towards England and helped India register their berth within the finals of the World Test Championship, which might be performed on June 18 towards New Zealand.
Despite Ashwin’s exceptional present, the spinner failed to slot in Sanjay Manjrekar’s all-time-great listing. The cricketer-turned-commentator additionally identified the spinner’s space of weak point and mentioned he has a “problem” when folks manufacturers the 34-year-old as “one of the all-time greats of the game”.
Manjrekar throughout a present on ESPNcricinfo mentioned: “When people start talking about him (Ashiwn) as being one of the all-time greats of the game then I have a few problems.”
“One basic problem I have with Ashwin is that when you look at SENA countries, Ashwin doesn’t have a single five-wicket haul there. And the other thing when you talk about him running through sides on Indian pitches that are suited to his kind of bowling is that in the last four years Jadeja has matched him with wicket-taking abilities.”
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“Then, interestingly, in the last series against England, Axar Patel got more wickets than Ashwin on similar pitches. So that is my problem with accepting Ashwin as a real all-time great,” defined Manjrekar.
Ashwin is at the moment the world No.2 bowler within the ICC Test rankings and is simply 9 wickets away from overtaking Harbhajan Singh to grow to be India’s third-highest wicket-taker.
Ashwin has to date scalped 409 wickets in 78 Tests at a median of 24.69, which embody seven 10-wicket hauls in a Test match.
