Adelaide Test: 'You can learn from people', says Ravichandran Ashwin
Updated On: 19 December, 2020 09:39 AM IST | Adelaide | PTI
Ashwin said that one needs to factor in that when a spinner plays abroad, there are two jobs -- containment and taking wickets.
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Ravichandran Ashwin is forever ready to learn from his peers but has his own way of finding the formula for success as he believes that there are "many ways to skin a cat". Ashwin's fine figures of 4 for 55, including the big wicket of Steve Smith, helped India gain a foothold on the second day of the opening Test here, but he didn't want to sit back and "rate" this as his best overseas performance.
So does he take pointers from Nathan Lyon's bowling when he bowls in Australia or from Moeen Ali when he is playing in England? "Sometimes comparisons and the way we look at things are very skewed. Do we ask batsmen to go and watch Steve Smith bat and replicate that all the time when we tour Australia? Nobody does that to Alastair Cook or Joe Root," the eloquent off-spinner counter-questioned. "I think we are all aware that everybody skins cat differently. Obviously, you can learn. There is no stoppage or anything. You can always learn from people as to how they go about their business," he said on Friday. Ashwin said that one needs to factor in that when a spinner plays abroad, there are two jobs -- containment and taking wickets.
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