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  • We are late already, this will happen a lot going forward: Ashwin on retiring himself out

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: R Ashwin feels the IPL is already late in using “retired out” as a tactical move and after becoming the first one to do so, the India spinner expects to see a lot more of it in the near future.

    Ashwin batted at No.6 for Rajasthan Royals against Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday but left the field after two balls in the 19th over to make way for Riyan Parag.

    He had scored 28 off 23 before retiring himself out.

    “T20, as a sport, is heading towards where football has reached. Just like how they’re using substitutions, I did something similar (retiring out). Already we’re late, but I believe this will happen a lot in the coming days.

    “I don’t think it will be a stigma like running someone out at the non-striker’s end,” said Ashwin on his Youtube channel. However, he thinks the move might not work always.

    “It might work sometimes and it might not work sometimes. These things happen constantly in football, and we haven’t cracked T20 cricket fully yet. This is a millennial sport. This is the next generation’s sport.

    “In fact, if you see in football, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo score goals frequently. But their team’s goalkeeper should also save goals and their defenders should defend well. Only then, a Messi or Ronaldo will be in the limelight.” 

    Since he was not able to get the desired boundaries in the slog overs, Ashwin thought it was best to make way for Parag.

    “It was just a tactical move. In fact, Riyan Parag has been batting very well and when the (K) Gowtham over (16th over) ended, I gave myself some time – five to six balls – to see whether I can hit a six or two fours.

    “There were a few balls in the slot, I tried to hit, and mistimed a bit. I threw the kitchen sink at everything, but I couldn’t get the timing going. Someone like Riyan Parag was in the shed and there were only ten balls remaining. If he comes and hits even two sixes, we could get a good score. It was a tactical decision.”

    Ashwin was also the first in the IPL to effect a run out of a non-striker backing up when he controversially dislodged the bails to dismiss Jos Buttler in 2019.

    In a recent update, the custodians of laws of cricket, MCC, moved the run out dismissal while backing up to Law 38 (run out) from Law 41 (unfair play).

    “The bowler is always painted as the villain but it is a legitimate way to dismiss someone and it is the non-striker who is stealing the ground,” Fraser Stewart, MCC Laws Manager, told the Times after the rules were reframed.

    “It is legitimate, it is a run-out and therefore it should live in the run-out section of the laws,” he had said.

  • We are late already, this will happen a lot going forward: Ashwin on retiring himself out

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: R Ashwin feels the IPL is already late in using “retired out” as a tactical move and after becoming the first one to do so, the India spinner expects to see a lot more of it in the near future.

    Ashwin batted at No.6 for Rajasthan Royals against Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday but left the field after two balls in the 19th over to make way for Riyan Parag.

    He had scored 28 off 23 before retiring himself out.

    “T20, as a sport, is heading towards where football has reached. Just like how they’re using substitutions, I did something similar (retiring out). Already we’re late, but I believe this will happen a lot in the coming days.

    “I don’t think it will be a stigma like running someone out at the non-striker’s end,” said Ashwin on his Youtube channel. However, he thinks the move might not work always.

    “It might work sometimes and it might not work sometimes. These things happen constantly in football, and we haven’t cracked T20 cricket fully yet. This is a millennial sport. This is the next generation’s sport.

    “In fact, if you see in football, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo score goals frequently. But their team’s goalkeeper should also save goals and their defenders should defend well. Only then, a Messi or Ronaldo will be in the limelight.” 

    Since he was not able to get the desired boundaries in the slog overs, Ashwin thought it was best to make way for Parag.

    “It was just a tactical move. In fact, Riyan Parag has been batting very well and when the (K) Gowtham over (16th over) ended, I gave myself some time – five to six balls – to see whether I can hit a six or two fours.

    “There were a few balls in the slot, I tried to hit, and mistimed a bit. I threw the kitchen sink at everything, but I couldn’t get the timing going. Someone like Riyan Parag was in the shed and there were only ten balls remaining. If he comes and hits even two sixes, we could get a good score. It was a tactical decision.”

    Ashwin was also the first in the IPL to effect a run out of a non-striker backing up when he controversially dislodged the bails to dismiss Jos Buttler in 2019.

    In a recent update, the custodians of laws of cricket, MCC, moved the run out dismissal while backing up to Law 38 (run out) from Law 41 (unfair play).

    “The bowler is always painted as the villain but it is a legitimate way to dismiss someone and it is the non-striker who is stealing the ground,” Fraser Stewart, MCC Laws Manager, told the Times after the rules were reframed.

    “It is legitimate, it is a run-out and therefore it should live in the run-out section of the laws,” he had said.

    NEW DELHI: R Ashwin feels the IPL is already late in using “retired out” as a tactical move and after becoming the first one to do so, the India spinner expects to see a lot more of it in the near future.

    Ashwin batted at No.6 for Rajasthan Royals against Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday but left the field after two balls in the 19th over to make way for Riyan Parag.

    He had scored 28 off 23 before retiring himself out.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    “T20, as a sport, is heading towards where football has reached. Just like how they’re using substitutions, I did something similar (retiring out). Already we’re late, but I believe this will happen a lot in the coming days.

    “I don’t think it will be a stigma like running someone out at the non-striker’s end,” said Ashwin on his Youtube channel. However, he thinks the move might not work always.

    “It might work sometimes and it might not work sometimes. These things happen constantly in football, and we haven’t cracked T20 cricket fully yet. This is a millennial sport. This is the next generation’s sport.

    “In fact, if you see in football, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo score goals frequently. But their team’s goalkeeper should also save goals and their defenders should defend well. Only then, a Messi or Ronaldo will be in the limelight.” 

    Since he was not able to get the desired boundaries in the slog overs, Ashwin thought it was best to make way for Parag.

    “It was just a tactical move. In fact, Riyan Parag has been batting very well and when the (K) Gowtham over (16th over) ended, I gave myself some time – five to six balls – to see whether I can hit a six or two fours.

    “There were a few balls in the slot, I tried to hit, and mistimed a bit. I threw the kitchen sink at everything, but I couldn’t get the timing going. Someone like Riyan Parag was in the shed and there were only ten balls remaining. If he comes and hits even two sixes, we could get a good score. It was a tactical decision.”

    Ashwin was also the first in the IPL to effect a run out of a non-striker backing up when he controversially dislodged the bails to dismiss Jos Buttler in 2019.

    In a recent update, the custodians of laws of cricket, MCC, moved the run out dismissal while backing up to Law 38 (run out) from Law 41 (unfair play).

    “The bowler is always painted as the villain but it is a legitimate way to dismiss someone and it is the non-striker who is stealing the ground,” Fraser Stewart, MCC Laws Manager, told the Times after the rules were reframed.

    “It is legitimate, it is a run-out and therefore it should live in the run-out section of the laws,” he had said.

  • Rajasthan Royals has been experimenting a lot; Ashwin’s retired out not out of the blue, says Sanju Samson

    By IANS

    MUMBAI: Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson has said that Ravichandran Ashwin’s decision to ‘retire out’ — which caught everyone, including some of his team-mates, by surprise — was not something out of the blue, and that it had been under discussion in the side before the start of IPL 2022.

    Whether it had been planned by Ashwin or not, but after pushing Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) Avesh Khan to cover for a single, he kept running after completing the run and stopped only after reaching the dressing room. The fact that Riyan Parag walked out to bat straightaway meant the team was expecting such a move from Ashwin.

    Ashwin’s batting partner at that time, Shimron Hetmyer struck Khan for sixes of successive deliveries and Parag too struck a big six before getting out, going for another big one off the penultimate delivery of the match to boost RR’s score to 165 for six. The winners of the inaugural IPL edition then restricted LSG to 162/8 for a narrow three-run win.

    Samson conceded that RR were trying out different strategies in the current edition of the IPL.

    “It’s about being Rajasthan Royals. We keep trying different things. Have been talking about it before the season. We thought that if some situation occurs, we can use it. Was a team decision,” Samson said.

    However, West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer had said after the match that he had no idea about the ‘retired out’ strategy. “I had no idea about it! He (Ashwin) was also a bit tired. It was a good decision, as the kid (Parag) hit a six for us.”

    Rajasthan’s director of cricket, Kumar Sangakkara too has praised Ashwin’s decision to sacrifice his wicket.

    “It was the right time to do that. Ashwin himself was asking from the field as well and we had discussed just before that as to what we would do. As the coach I got one call wrong not sending Riyan Parag ahead of Rassie van der Dussen and holding Rassie back.

    “so we couldn’t get the full benefit of Riyan, but how Ashwin handled that situation, walking in under pressure, he batted, supported the team and then finally sacrificed himself in terms of retiring himself out and then backed it up with a magnificent bowling effort,” said Sangakkara.

  • Rajasthan Royals has been experimenting a lot; Ashwin’s retired out not out of the blue, says Sanju Samson

    By IANS

    MUMBAI: Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson has said that Ravichandran Ashwin’s decision to ‘retire out’ — which caught everyone, including some of his team-mates, by surprise — was not something out of the blue, and that it had been under discussion in the side before the start of IPL 2022.

    Whether it had been planned by Ashwin or not, but after pushing Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) Avesh Khan to cover for a single, he kept running after completing the run and stopped only after reaching the dressing room. The fact that Riyan Parag walked out to bat straightaway meant the team was expecting such a move from Ashwin.

    Ashwin’s batting partner at that time, Shimron Hetmyer struck Khan for sixes of successive deliveries and Parag too struck a big six before getting out, going for another big one off the penultimate delivery of the match to boost RR’s score to 165 for six. The winners of the inaugural IPL edition then restricted LSG to 162/8 for a narrow three-run win.

    Samson conceded that RR were trying out different strategies in the current edition of the IPL.

    “It’s about being Rajasthan Royals. We keep trying different things. Have been talking about it before the season. We thought that if some situation occurs, we can use it. Was a team decision,” Samson said.

    However, West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer had said after the match that he had no idea about the ‘retired out’ strategy. “I had no idea about it! He (Ashwin) was also a bit tired. It was a good decision, as the kid (Parag) hit a six for us.”

    Rajasthan’s director of cricket, Kumar Sangakkara too has praised Ashwin’s decision to sacrifice his wicket.

    “It was the right time to do that. Ashwin himself was asking from the field as well and we had discussed just before that as to what we would do. As the coach I got one call wrong not sending Riyan Parag ahead of Rassie van der Dussen and holding Rassie back.

    “so we couldn’t get the full benefit of Riyan, but how Ashwin handled that situation, walking in under pressure, he batted, supported the team and then finally sacrificed himself in terms of retiring himself out and then backed it up with a magnificent bowling effort,” said Sangakkara.

    MUMBAI: Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson has said that Ravichandran Ashwin’s decision to ‘retire out’ — which caught everyone, including some of his team-mates, by surprise — was not something out of the blue, and that it had been under discussion in the side before the start of IPL 2022.

    Whether it had been planned by Ashwin or not, but after pushing Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) Avesh Khan to cover for a single, he kept running after completing the run and stopped only after reaching the dressing room. The fact that Riyan Parag walked out to bat straightaway meant the team was expecting such a move from Ashwin.

    Ashwin’s batting partner at that time, Shimron Hetmyer struck Khan for sixes of successive deliveries and Parag too struck a big six before getting out, going for another big one off the penultimate delivery of the match to boost RR’s score to 165 for six. The winners of the inaugural IPL edition then restricted LSG to 162/8 for a narrow three-run win.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); });

    Samson conceded that RR were trying out different strategies in the current edition of the IPL.

    “It’s about being Rajasthan Royals. We keep trying different things. Have been talking about it before the season. We thought that if some situation occurs, we can use it. Was a team decision,” Samson said.

    However, West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer had said after the match that he had no idea about the ‘retired out’ strategy. “I had no idea about it! He (Ashwin) was also a bit tired. It was a good decision, as the kid (Parag) hit a six for us.”

    Rajasthan’s director of cricket, Kumar Sangakkara too has praised Ashwin’s decision to sacrifice his wicket.

    “It was the right time to do that. Ashwin himself was asking from the field as well and we had discussed just before that as to what we would do. As the coach I got one call wrong not sending Riyan Parag ahead of Rassie van der Dussen and holding Rassie back.

    “so we couldn’t get the full benefit of Riyan, but how Ashwin handled that situation, walking in under pressure, he batted, supported the team and then finally sacrificed himself in terms of retiring himself out and then backed it up with a magnificent bowling effort,” said Sangakkara.

  • Former stars hail stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane’s leadership

    India’s stand-in skipper Ajinkya Rahane drew praise for his tactical acumen with former stars hailing his effective bowling changes that put the visitors in a dominating position in the second Test against Australia here on Saturday.
    Australia opted to bat but it was India that seized the initiative with Rahane shuffling his bowlers smartly to keep the hosts under the pump.
    Whether it was the early introduction of off-spinner R Ashwin or the decision to hold back debutant Mohammed Siraj, all his ploys yielded results and eventually the hosts were all out for 195.

  • Tight bowling by Indian bowlers, bowled Australia for 195 runs

    Australian batsmen succumbed to the bowling of R Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj and after winning the toss, the Australian team could score only 195 runs in the first innings on the first day of the Boxing Day Test match. Apart from Marnus Labuschen, no other batsman faced an Indian attack. Labushen scored the most 48 runs. Apart from him, Travis Head scored an innings of 38 runs.

    Team India started brilliantly and stopped Australia for 195 runs in 72.3 overs. Jaspreet Bumrah took four wickets for 56 runs with an economy of 3.50. While Ashwin took 3 wickets for 35 runs with an economy of 1.46. Debut match Mohammed Siraj took 2 wickets for 40 runs with an economy of 2.67.

    Indian bowlers dominated the match from the very beginning. India had given Australia three big shocks on 65 runs in the opening session. In the absence of Virat Kohli, with the efficient captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane, who captained the team, India dominated the pitch taking turn and bounce in the first session. Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Joe Burns in the fifth over, whose poor form continued and he could not even open the account. After Bumrah’s ball, he caught Rishabh Pant behind the wicket. After this, in the 11th over, Ashwin sent Matthew Wade to the pavilion. Wade scored 30 runs off 39 balls. One over after this, Ashwin took a big wicket in the form of Steve Smith. Smith could not even open the account and he caught a catch in leg lane to new vice-captain Cheteshwar Pujara.

  • There are different rules for different players in Indian team: Sunil Gavaskar

    Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar has said that treatment meted out to bowlers like R Ashwin and T Natarajan is biased as there are “different rules for different players”.
    The former India opener said that Ashwin has suffered within the Indian team because of his forthrightness. He also took a dig at the India skipper Virat Kohli, who got permission to leave the tour of Australia to attend the birth of his child, while T Natarajan who became a father during the IPL playoffs is yet to see his daughter.

    “For far too long Ashwin has suffered not for his bowling ability of which only the churlish will have doubts, but for his forthrightness and speaking his mind at meetings where most others just nod even if they don’t agree,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.

    “Any other country would welcome a bowler who has more than 350 Test wickets and not to forget four Test match centuries, too. However, if Ashwin doesn’t take heaps of wickets in one game he is invariably sidelined for the next one. That does not happen to established batsmen though. Even if they fail in one game they get another chance and another and another but for Ashwin the rules seem to be different,” he added.

  • Australia has to bear the brunt of taking Ashwin lightly: Potting

    Former Australia captain Ricky Potting has said that the Australian team has had to bear the brunt of taking Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on the second day of the Adelaide Test.

    Many people raised questions on Ravichandran Ashwin’s inclusion in the playing XI. But this off-spinner, showing his ability, put the Australian batsmen in trouble on the second day of the Adelaide Test match. He made Australia’s star batsman Steven Smith walk on a single. After that Ashwin broke the back of Australian batting by sending Travis Head and Cameron Green to the pavilion.

    Ricky Pontig told Channel 7, “The Australian batsmen appeared to be trying to attack Ashwin strongly. I think he took Ashwin lightly. The batsmen tried to keep the scoreboard in motion and their stakes backfired. “

    Ashwin had taken three wickets till the end. Former Australian veteran bowler Glenn McGrath was not impressed with his team’s batting. He told Sony Sports, “Today, the batsmen should be very defensive. He was waiting for a bad ball to play pressure on the bowlers. He should have put a little more pressure on the bowlers. Indian bowlers managed to bowl at the places they wanted and kept getting wickets. “

  • Looks like I’m making a debut again: Ashwin

    Indian team off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has said after the end of the second day of the Adelaide Test that after playing the Test match after so many months it felt like I am again projecting. In the first day-night Test match, the Indian team reduced the first innings to host Australia in Adelaide for only 191 runs.

    Ashwin bowling lethally took four wickets for 55 runs in 18 overs. At the end of the second day’s play, Ashwin said to reporters that after 10 months, he felt like coming back to the ground again as if he has again made a debut.

    He said, “I am very happy that the Indian team is playing Test cricket once again. Due to Corona virus infection, we did not expect that we would be able to return to the field soon. But after 10 months, it is good to return to Test cricket. After being away from the field for so long, now I feel like I have reappeared in Test cricket. “

    Ashwin made Australia’s star batsman Steven Smith out for one run and made batsmen like Cameron Green and Travis Head his victim. He said, “Smith’s dismissal was a big wicket for me. In the way he bats, it was a very important wicket for the team, I worked hard on my game during lockdown. In such a situation, I loved bowling here. I am very happy to be a part of the pink-ball test match. At the end of the second day’s play, India have scored nine runs after losing one wicket and the team has got a lead of 62 runs.

  • Ashwin, Umesh, Bumrah consolidate Australia, gain edge

    India got off to Australia on the first day – thanks to the amazing spin of off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (4/55) and fast bowlers Umesh Yadav (3/40) and Jaspreet Bumrah (2/52). On the second day from the night test, on Friday, he scored a significant lead of 53 runs in the first innings by covering 191 runs.

    In this match being played with pink ball, India scored 244 runs in the first innings while the Australian team was reduced to 191 runs. Captain Tim Paine scored the most unbeaten 73 runs for Australia. India have gained a significant edge in this match, while at one time it seemed that the Australian team was dominating the match but the Indian bowlers made a great comeback after being reduced to 244 for six in the first innings by playing 233 runs. And kept the kangaroos on the backfoot constantly.

    For Australia, Penn struggled unilaterally, trying to handle the Kangaroos’ innings and scored 73 not out with the help of 10 fours in 99 balls. Apart from Penn, Marnus Labuschen scored 47 runs in 119 balls with the help of seven fours. Apart from these two batsmen, no other Australian batsman could do Karisma. In Australia’s innings, Mitchell Starc scored 15, Cameron Green scored 11, Nathan Lyon scored 10 and former captain Steven Smith scored one run. For India, Ashwin took four wickets for 55 runs in 18 overs, Umesh took three wickets for 40 runs in 16.1 overs and Bumrah took two wickets for 52 runs in 21 overs while Mohammad Shami remained empty handed for 41 runs in 17 overs.