‘New India’, ‘Pujara’s Pooja’: R Ashwin shares tales from Sydney Test

Indian cricket celebrity Ravichandran Ashwin shared tales from the tour of Australia on his YouTube channel on Friday. During the 18 minutes and 30 seconds video, the off-spinner narrated entertaining and humorous inside tales. The video is in Tamil and subtitles can be found in English.

The Indian cricket crew’s fielding coach, R Sridhar accompanied Ashwin for the video. Ashwin narrated that previous to the fifth day of the Sydney take a look at, there have been already discussions amongst ‘them’ the place they might be having their lunch.
Ashwin recounts that ‘they’ (in all probability the Australian crew though it’s not clear exactly who they had been, might very properly be the bottom workers) had been already discussing, “India will be done by lunch. So, shall we have the lunch at the hotel?”
R Sridhar says, “India’s team togetherness. I saw that happen on that day 5. One of the most enthralling days of test cricket.” “Then there was Pujara,” he stated. Ashwin then says that “Pujara’s Pooja” meant that one was in for a “long day”.
“You won’t let me score? No problem. You will hit my body? No problem. You will hit my finger? No problem. It looks ugly? No problem,” R Sridhar says of Pujara’s “adamant determination”. “We will rename as the Rock of Gibraltar,” says Ashwin. R Sridhar says, “He is a wounded, walking, fighting monk.”
Then, in a hilarious second, the off-spinner in contrast Pujara to the Night King from Game of Thrones. “From the first season to the last, he will keep walking everywhere. Why are people even scared of him? He is walking in all slowness. Our Puj is also similar. Slowly walking.” He recounts seeing a meme on the web the place Hazlewood, Starc and Cummins are proven as younger males when Pujara walks in to bat and outdated with gray beard by the point he’s executed along with his innings.
R Sridhar says that he obtained some data from the Australian dressing room the place they had been analyzing Pujara’s batting. Hazlewood apparently threw his cap down and stated, “Enough of me seeing Pujara again. I have seen enough on the field.”
About the flamboyant Rishabh Pant, Ashwin says, “Two things. One, we get scared. Two, the opponent gets more scared.” The fielding coach heaps praises on the Indian wicket-keeper and applauds his means to attain that many runs towards Australia as a teen along with his unorthodox batting model. “That is New India,” he says.
The funniest bit, no doubt, concerned Shardul Thakur. Ravi Shastri, the pinnacle coach of the Indian crew, known as the teen and stated, “Go and tell them that I told this specifically.” Hanuma Vihari and Ravichandran Ashwin had been batting on the time. Shivering, Thakur requested Shastri what he ought to inform them. The message that he wanted to convey was that Ashwin ought to defend towards the spinner from one finish and Vihari ought to face the pacers on the different.
“Then out came Shardul charging from the dressing room,” says Ravichandran Ashwin, “He was catching his breath when he reached us.” Shardul then informed them, “They told me so many things from the dressing room. But I am not gonna say any of it. You guys are already doing a great job. So, please continue.” Then Ashwin and Sridhar each burst into peels of laughter.
Ashwin recounts that he informed Vihari, “We just survived a hostile spell of Pat Cummins. We got tattoos all over our body. We can survive anything from here. We are not gonna go out on our own. Just keep defending and bore them off. Just don’t flash anything outside off. Keep defending. We might get hit but we will come through.”
Ravichandran Ashwin additionally remembers the unsavoury sledging by Tim Paine. He says that it was the second once they realised that the Australian crew has misplaced it.
In the episode, the 2 mentioned the third Test Match between India and Australia at Sydney the place the Indian crew pulled off a draw below extraordinarily tough situations because of good batting from Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Hanuma Vihari and Ravichandran Ashwin. In the take a look at that adopted, the 4th and last take a look at, India pulled off a exceptional victory below extraordinary circumstances after a collective crew effort.