By Paritosh Pramanik
NAGPUR, Oct 29
THE sixth One-Day International between India and Australia might be crucial and important for the hosts, who are trailing 1-2, but spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said that team-mates were relaxed and under no pressure.
“It’s been a good tight series so far. It has been pretty relaxed inside the Indian dressing room. There’s no pressure as such. We are just going to enjoy the game. This game is going to be crucial so we just want to enjoy it and see where we can take it,” said Ashwin on the eve of the must-win game for India.
Indian bowlers are at the receiving end in the series so far. The Australians have plundered almost all bowlers. Ashwin stressed that all bowlers were working hard on certain areas to improve.
“There are always areas on which you can work upon on, so constantly looking to improve on that...Bowling more and more because that’s the only way you can get better. Name of the game is to keep improving so just doing that,” he explained.
Ashwin admitted that the Australians are very strong in batting and have scored big runs with some risky shots. However, he assured that Indian bowlers would try to counter them in the next two games.
“It is the trend of the series. We have been chasing down big scores. We have chased down 360. The score has predominately been around 300. Any team that has batted first has predominately got around 300-run mark. It’s definitely challenging in terms of what the batsmen are doing. They are going for their shots. They are playing the high risk shots, the credit needs to be given,” said the lanky spinner.
On the new ODI rules Ashwin said, “The demands of the games are such that you have to keep evolving as a player. Till the decision-making is not in my court I cannot do much about it. So whatever decisions have been made I have to try to cope up with it. I’m sure all the cricketers are doing the same and there’s not much you can do about it.”
Indians have been poor fielders and have dropped catches at crucial times in the series. But Ashwin said it is part and parcel of the game.
“These things do happen in the game. A couple of catches go down and it catches with other fielders and soon it becomes the trend of the day. But you don’t have to worry too much about it as long as you are putting in the hard yards,” he said.
NAGPUR, Oct 29
THE sixth One-Day International between India and Australia might be crucial and important for the hosts, who are trailing 1-2, but spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said that team-mates were relaxed and under no pressure.
“It’s been a good tight series so far. It has been pretty relaxed inside the Indian dressing room. There’s no pressure as such. We are just going to enjoy the game. This game is going to be crucial so we just want to enjoy it and see where we can take it,” said Ashwin on the eve of the must-win game for India.
Indian bowlers are at the receiving end in the series so far. The Australians have plundered almost all bowlers. Ashwin stressed that all bowlers were working hard on certain areas to improve.“There are always areas on which you can work upon on, so constantly looking to improve on that...Bowling more and more because that’s the only way you can get better. Name of the game is to keep improving so just doing that,” he explained.
Ashwin admitted that the Australians are very strong in batting and have scored big runs with some risky shots. However, he assured that Indian bowlers would try to counter them in the next two games.
“It is the trend of the series. We have been chasing down big scores. We have chased down 360. The score has predominately been around 300. Any team that has batted first has predominately got around 300-run mark. It’s definitely challenging in terms of what the batsmen are doing. They are going for their shots. They are playing the high risk shots, the credit needs to be given,” said the lanky spinner.
On the new ODI rules Ashwin said, “The demands of the games are such that you have to keep evolving as a player. Till the decision-making is not in my court I cannot do much about it. So whatever decisions have been made I have to try to cope up with it. I’m sure all the cricketers are doing the same and there’s not much you can do about it.”
Indians have been poor fielders and have dropped catches at crucial times in the series. But Ashwin said it is part and parcel of the game.
“These things do happen in the game. A couple of catches go down and it catches with other fielders and soon it becomes the trend of the day. But you don’t have to worry too much about it as long as you are putting in the hard yards,” he said.
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