‘When I bowl, I think like a batter’: Ravichandran Ashwin explains how he ‘spins’ his magic | Cricket News – Act Daily News

Following a outstanding efficiency with the ball in India’s first Test towards West Indies, Ravichandran Ashwin offered insights into his strategic method and the rationale behind his deliveries.
Ashwin successfully capitalized on the extra bounce and spin accessible, presenting a formidable problem for the opposition’s middle-order batters.
His capability to differ his deliveries, preserve an impeccable line and size and deceive the batters makes it exceedingly tough for them to decipher his intentions and stay firmly positioned on the crease.Remarkably, Ashwin concluded the primary Test with distinctive figures of 12/131, marking his finest efficiency away from house, which gave India a large win by an innings and 141 runs.
During a dialog with commentators Ian Bishop and Samuel Badree following the match, Ashwin shared his thought course of whereas executing his bowling ways.
“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,” Ashwin stated as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.

To spotlight that, Ashwin defined how he labored out West Indies captain and opening batter Kraigg Brathwaite.
“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,” Ashwin added.
When Ashwin referred to “losing his head,” he was alluding to the truth that on the supply that led to Braithwaite’s dismissal, the batter’s head was leaning excessively in the direction of the off aspect because the ball landed on a line close to the center stump. This positional imbalance restricted the batter’s accessible decisions.

Although Ashwin did not delve into the precise particulars of his launch level throughout his post-match dialogue, he did emphasize the impression of pure variation on the psychological state of batter.
“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,” Ashwin signed off.
(With company inputs)