Leading wicket taker of the series, Ravichandran Ashwin has been in stupendous form. He claimed his 26th wicket of the series when he showed the doors to Steve Smith in the final session of the day and was very satisfied with it because he set him up quite nicely and executed his plan really well.<\/p>\n
As per the reports in DNA<\/strong>, the right arm off-spinner was quoted saying, “I believe getting Steve Smith out was more satisfying. In case of Johnson, it was an error of judgment on his part that helped me get his wicket,”\n<\/p>\n Answering to a query about how different the Kotla strip was in comparison to the Chepauk pitch, Ashwinsaid, “That’s red soil and this is black soil!” adding: “It’s always evident that on black soil the ball doesn’t bounce as much as on the red soil.”<\/p>\n According to the recent reports in The Hindu<\/strong>, Ashwin was quoted saying, “Margin of error is very less on this wicket as it is having some spots on it. One shouldn’t try too many things from back of the hand.”<\/p>\n “I don’t think Australian tail-enders have stayed on the crease for longer durations. They have batted pretty well today but we have to bowl them out tomorrow\u2019s morning as early as possible,” he answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leading wicket taker of the series, Ravichandran Ashwin has been in stupendous form. He claimed his 26th wicket of the series when he showed the doors to Steve Smith in the final session of the day and was very satisfied with it because he set him up quite nicely and executed his plan really well.<\/p>\n As per the reports in DNA<\/strong>, the right arm off-spinner was quoted saying, “I believe getting Steve Smith out was more satisfying. In case of Johnson, it was an error of judgment on his part that helped me get his wicket,”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[552,6293,1179,1130,3523],"class_list":["post-13956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-from-the-newspapers","tag-border-gavaskar-trophy","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-mitchell-johnson","tag-ravichandran-ashwin","tag-steve-smith"],"yoast_head":"\n