Ravichandran Ashwin loses his cool, hits out at Australia's Rodney Hogg
New Delhi: Ravichandran Ashwin and Rodney Hogg were engaged in a war of words on Tuesday with the former Australian pacer saying that the Indian spinner was successful against South Africa mainly due to the spin-friendly wickets during the Test series.
India Team is leading the four-Test series 2-0, courtesy a whopping 47 wickets out of 50 claimed by the spin trio of Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Amit Mishra during the three Tests which came under flak because of spin-friendly wickets.
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Ashwin was the highest wicket-taker, snapping 24 wickets as India won the first and third Tests in Mohali and Nagpur respectively, both of which finished within three days.
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The second Test in Bengaluru saw 12 wickets fall on the opening day before heavy rain washed out the match.
Indian team management's decision to prepare rank turners came under flak with former cricketers such as England Michael Vaughan and Australia's Matthew Hayden criticising the move.
After ICC tweeted ‘Ashwin goes to career high’ and asked is he ‘the best spinner in the world right now?’, Rodney Hogg wrote
@ICC @ashwinravi99 @BCCI Ashwin have a look in the mirror and ask yourself were the recent wickets a bit too spinner friendly.
— Rodney Hogg (@RMHogg) November 30, 2015Ashwin hit out on Tuesday, saying that Hoggs also owes his success in their own country to favourable home conditions.
The Chennai lad wrote on Twitter,
@RMHogg @ICC @BCCI sure,let's just share the same mirror or should I order two??
— Ashwin Ravichandran (@ashwinravi99) November 30, 2015Interestingly, the ICC on Tuesday rated the track at Nagpur which hosted the third cricket Test as "poor", triggering a review of the performance of the pitch under the ICC Pitch Monitoring Process.
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