On social media and within the opinions of some former cricketers, displeasure was expressed over retaining two key gamers like Kohli and Sharma on the benches, notably within the 12 months main as much as the 50-over World Cup.
“So many players are recovering at the NCA. (Jasprit) Bumrah is back after a long break. Prasidh Krishna also made a return after an injury break. It seems that people are faulting team management just for the sake of it,” stated Ashwin on his YouTube channel.
The senior spinner stated victory can’t be taken with no consideration in worldwide cricket.
“Some (people) were shocked because we lost to a team that didn’t qualify for the World Cup. Many people think that India’s only job in international cricket is to win the World Cup. People think India are favourites to win the World Cup because of the IPL,” Ashwin stated.
Even although India misplaced the second ODI towards the Windies, they managed to register a 2-1 sequence win finally.
England has taken the cricketing world by storm whereas taking part in the aggressive ‘Bazball’ model of sport.
However, Ashwin stated it is going to be powerful to see India adopting such techniques contemplating the staff has embraced a interval of transition.
“We are playing Test cricket really well. But we will go through a transition very soon, and things won’t be easy during that phase,” he stated.
Ashwin additionally cited the distinction in sporting tradition in India and England as another excuse for the previous not going the ‘Bazball’ means.
“Let us assume India is adopting Bazball… and assume a player throws his bat at everything like Harry Brook and gets out and we lose two Test matches. What will we do? Will we back the Bazball and the players? We will drop at least four players from our playing XI.”
“That’s how our culture has always been. It works for them (England) because their management is fully in sync with this style of play, their selectors back the players to play this way.”
“In fact, even their crowd and Test match-watching public are backing the team in this process. But we can’t do this,” the ace spinner stated.
The ICC World Cup 2023 might be held in India throughout October and November and Ashwin appealed to followers to help the staff, and steer clear of negativity.
“Winning a world cup is not easy…just because we play a certain player or drop a certain player, we can’t win. All of us are hindsight kings. Hindsight doesn’t work here.”
“We have qualified for the semifinals of almost all major tournaments but on that day, we have not been good enough. Let us send them (to the WC) with a lot of positivity,” he stated.
While speaking in regards to the Ashes sequence which noticed England bouncing again from 0-2 to degree the sequence 2-2, Ashwin stated Australia may need been hindered by the injury-enforced absence of veteran spinner Nathan Lyon.
(With PTI Inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com