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India vs England: How R Ashwin spoilt Alastair Cook’s recipe for runs
- Updated: December 14, 2016
India’s R Ashwin walks behind to a pavilion with a commemoration branch and round after assisting India kick England in a fourth Test on Monday. Inset: Alistair Cook
Alastair Cook is a usually English actor who has a good record opposite spin in a sub-continent. Of his 30 Test hundreds, 9 hundreds (five vs India, dual vs Bangladesh, one vs Sri Lanka and one vs Pakistan) have been scored on spin-friendly tracks. Quite a few of them were large hundreds — 263 opposite Pakistan, 173 opposite Bangladesh and 190 opposite India. It all started with his dominant entrance hundred opposite India in Nagpur in 2006 and given then, he has scored heavily in India.
When England toured India in 2012-13, captain Cook led from a front with some wilful knocks — 176 in a initial Test during Ahmedabad, 122 in a second Test in Mumbai and 190 in a third Test in Kolkata. Each ton valid to be a cornerstone of an English win. It was probable given he dominated a Indian spinners easily.
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Failure to dominate
It’s opposite this time. Except in a initial Test in Rajkot, Cook hasn’t been means to browbeat a Indian spinners like he did in a final series. If England called a shots in Rajkot it was given he also dominated a spinners there. Of his 8 dismissals in a final 4 Tests, Cook has depressed to spinners on 7 occasions – thrice to R Ashwin and 4 times to Ravindra Jadeja. On 6 occasions, he walked behind to a pavilion with below-50 scores to his name.
Cook’s inability to browbeat a spinners, generally Ashwin, who has inflicted limit repairs (27 wickets in 4 Tests) has valid to be a pivotal reason for England’s rain in this series. Talking about a Indian spinner opposite whom he has scored only.
82 of a sum of 310 in 4 Tests this year, Cook pronounced he is proof to be really formidable to face now given he has softened massively. In a 2012-13 series, Cook scored 217 runs off Ashwin in a sum of 548 runs.
“It is really formidable to play him now. He is positively a softened bowler than he was a integrate of years ago. He has bowled good and softened massively over a final integrate of years. He does not skip length too much. As a spinner, if we don’t skip length we are always putting a batsman underneath pressure,” pronounced a England captain.
Ashwin’s grind pays off
Cook also hailed Ashwin’s variations. “He does not play too many bad balls and we can see that his certainty is sky-high now. He is assured and that’s because he has that control. He is also bowling some-more variations. Credit to him. Put that down to tough work. If we work tough adequate and we are good enough, we get your rewards,” a England captain concluded.