Former Indian spinner Pragyan Ojha hailed Indian veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for his brilliant bowling on day 1 of the 1st test against West Indies. The 36-year-old picked up a 5-wicket haul to bundle the West Indies team for 150 runs in the 1st innings.
Ashwin made a stunning comeback into the playing 11 picking up 5 wickets in the 1st innings of the 1st test against West Indies and is currently the number one Test bowler in the world. The Indian spinner was introduced early in the innings, which helped the Indian team pick up crucial wickets in the middle overs.
Speaking on Jiocinema, Pragyan Ojha praise Ravichandran Ashwin for his performance against the West Indies team over the years and has been a valuable asset for the Indian team since his debut in 2011 and lauded him for setting up the batter in the 1st innings and added that it was also important wrap-up the things at the end.
“He has got four hundred against them. He made his debut against them, picking wickets, and has done wonderfully well. The way he set up the batters was brilliant. He was varying his pace and the West Indies batters did not have answers to the questions that were thrown by Ashwin to them. The way he wrapped up the innings shows how important he is for the Indian team,” Pragyan Ojha said.
Ashwin finished with figures of 24.3-6-60-5 on the 1st innings of the game, as broke the opening partnership before getting the wickets in the middle overs. The Indian veteran will look to continue his fine form going into the 2nd innings.
Ashwin Has Always Been Special With The Ball – Pragyan Ojha
Pragyan Ojha lauded Ravichandran Ashwin for making a comeback into the Indian side following his exclusion from the team during the World Test Championship final against Australia as good players always come across the hurdle to do special things for the country.
“If you see all the champion players, they cross that hurdle and make sure that they always deliver when the team needs them. Ashwin has always been special with the ball and he continues to do that,” Pragyan Ojha added.
Ravichandran Ashwin was dropped from the playing 11 against Australia as the team went in with four seamers for the one-off test against Australia as they failed to assess the conditions in Kennington, Oval which eventually led to the team loss in the one-off test in England.