Ravichandran Ashwin Border Gavaskar Trophy: Many questions are being raised after the Indian cricket team’s recent defeat in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. During BGT itself, former Indian team off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin had announced his retirement. After which Ashwin has recently given a big statement regarding this series, which is in the news. Ashwin told because of which player the Indian team had to face defeat.
Ravichandran Ashwin’s big statement regarding Scott Boland (Ravichandran Ashwin On Scott Boland)
Former Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin told on his YouTube channel that due to which player the Indian team had to face defeat. Actually, India had to face defeat by 1-3 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. After which the players of the Indian team were criticized a lot. In fact, Ravichandran Ashwin described Australian fast bowler Scott Boland as the biggest difference in BGT. Ashwin believes that, if Boland had not been selected in the Australian team, the Indian team would have won this series. But this could not happen.
For information, let us tell you that Scott Boland did not get a place in the playing 11 in the Perth Test, this match was won by India by a huge margin of 295 runs under the captaincy of Jasprit Bumrah. However, Josh Hazlewood got injured in the Adelaide Test and Scott Boland got a place in the squad. Australia won the Adelaide Test by a huge margin of 10 wickets.
But then Boland did not get a chance in the Brisbane Test, but after this he got a chance to play continuously in Melbourne and Sydney. Ashwin, while talking about the BGT series on his YouTube channel, said that the Australian team was lucky to have Boland in the team. Ashwin said that, everyone is saying that the series was very good for Pat Cummins, but Pat was also seen struggling against left-handed batsmen. Australia was lucky to have Scott Boland in the team. If Scott Boland had not played, India could have won the series. Don’t want to hurt Josh Hazlewood, he has always been a great bowler. But if the Kangaroo team had played with a similar bowling attack, Team India would have won the series. The way Boland bowled from round the wicket against our left-handed batsmen was a big aspect.