IND vs WI: I'm Thinking Constantly Like A Batter - Ravichandran Ashwin On His Success Against West Indies

Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin talked about his success in the first Test against West Indies. He said that he’s constantly thinking like a batter when he’s bowling and tries to gauge the right pace to be bowling with.

Ravichandran Ashwin was the most valuable player for India in the first Test against West Indies. He ripped into the opposition’s batting lineup with his sensational bowling in both innings and was one of the main reasons behind the game getting over inside 3 days.

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Ravichandran Ashwin spun the web around the West Indies batter and picked the five-wicket haul that saw India bundling out the opposition for just 150 runs. If this was not enough, he came up with another brilliant outing in the second innings and close the game for his side.

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Ravichandran Ashwin picked 7 wickets in the second innings and helped India bundle out West Indies for 130 runs and win the game by a big margin. He took 12 wickets in the game and also surpassed England’s James Anderson in the list of most five-wicket hauls.

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Ravichandran Ashwin gave insights about how he approaches his bowling and explained how he looks for different angles and varies his pace.

“I’m thinking constantly like a batter when
I’m bowling. (For) the first few overs, I’m settling into a nice rhythm, I’m looking for different angles, trying to see whether my round-arm ball spins or the up-and-over spins or the flatter trajectory spins. I try and gauge the pitch, I try and gauge the right pace to be bowling with, and then I’m looking at the batter,” as quoted by ESPNCricinfo, he said.

Ravichandran Ashwin also talked about how he planned Kriagg Brathwaite’s wicket. Elaborating on the same, he said:

“That’s the next phase for me – where is the head moving, where is he looking to score those runs, is he falling over, is his front leg coming over? Those are the things I’m looking at. Today, when I was bowling at Kraigg Brathwaite – it was something I was working on in the first innings as well – I felt like when the round-arm action was coming in, he was losing his head.”

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IND vs WI: “It’s pretty much (about gauging) very quickly when a batter walks in” – Ravichandran Ashwin

Ravichandran Ashwin further talked about Kraigg Brathwaite’s dismissal and said that it was about gauging very quickly when a batter walks in.

He explained: “The moment a batter walks in, you know what he wants to do, and Jermaine Blackwood was a clear example of how (after) Kraigg Brathwaite nicked it off to slip, he was (worried about) the outside edge, wanting to protect it.

“It’s pretty much (about gauging) very quickly when a batter walks in – whether he
wants to drive, whether he wants to sit back. So when you make that early gauging of a situation or a batter, you’ve got a better chance of attacking him up front.”

Ravichandran Ashwin will be next seen in action when the second Test between India and the West Indies begins on July 20 at Port of Spain.

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