Questions have been raised about their capability to touble batsmen in international cricket but spin duo Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja has proved their detractors wrong with a quality start to their International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup 2015 crusade, feels team’s dynamic batsman Virat Kohli.
With emphatic triumphs over Pakistan and South Africa in the first two matches, there will no second thoughts about the role played by left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. They have got 6 wickets between them that is Ashwin has 4 wickets and Jadeja follows him with 2 wickets in bag, and collectively leaked 175 runs in 36.2 overs at an economy rate of 4.83 runs per over.
Vice-captain Virat Kohli, who gave his view on the presentation of the spinner duo before the game against South Africa, said they were our 2 main bowlers in the Champions Trophy in England. Ravindra Jadeja was considered as ‘Best Bowler’. No one then had anticipated that Indian spinners will become their main bowlers. They showed everyone wrong then and even if everyone see there in Australia, this spinning duo are again doing well.
Kohli further said that the duo have demonstrated how correct the old maxim “offence is the best defence”. He does not trust that if someone plays an attacking aggressive character, the other requires to handle the defensive part. He thinks, firstly Indian mind-set should be to take wickets. Ashwin had that mind-set in the first match against Pakistan. Ravindra Jadeja is always an aggressive bowler and if gets a wee bit of guidance, he turns into an even more dangerous bowler. They saw that during Champions Trophy in England.