Ashwin not an all-time nice due to SENA file: Sanjay Manjrekar

Ravichandran Ashwin, regardless of his data, just isn’t all all-time nice, stated former Indian cricketer and commentator Sanjay Manjrekar. Manjrekar stated Ashwin doesn’t have five-wicket hauls in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) nations and that he has been matched by Ravindra Jadeja when working by batting orders when enjoying in India.
“When people start talking about Ashwin 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,” Manjrekar stated on ESPNCricinfo present ‘Runorder’.
“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. Then, interestingly, in the last series against England, Axar Patel got more wickets than Ashwin on similar pitches,” added Manjrekar.
Ian Chappell, who was additionally current, defined that somebody like Joel Garner of the West Indies additionally did one thing related — the place he would apply the stress and the wickets could be shared between all of the bowlers due to Garner’s stress.
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“How many five-wicket hauls does Joel Garner have? Not many, when you consider how good he was and his record. And why, because he was performing with three other very, very fine players,” Chappell identified. Chappell additionally stated Ashwin is a greater spinner than Australian Nathan Lyon for the time being.
Ashwin has 409 wickets in 78 Tests at a mean of 24.69, together with 30 five-wicket hauls in an innings and 7 10-wicket hauls in a Test. Ashwin is the fifth highest wicket-taking spinner within the historical past of Test cricket. In India, solely Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble, and Harbhajan Singh have taken extra wickets than Ashwin.
Ashwin is at the moment world No.2 within the ICC Test rankings for bowlers. He is simply 9 wickets away from surpassing Harbhajan Singh, who’s India’s third-highest wicket-taker, and is 26 wickets away from displacing Kapil Dev from the second place.