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The Legend of Sehwag- Virender Sehwag Had A Demoralising Effect On Me, Reveals Ravichandran Ashwin

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India's premier off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed the demoralising effect he endured while bowling at former opener Virender Sehwag. Ashwin recalled his tryst with Sehwag at a net session a few years ago. "Sehwag was never complicated. He had a demoralising effect on me actually," Ashwin said during 'What the Duck 2' chat show.

"There was an incident in Dambulla, where every ball that I bowled, first ball I bowled outside off stump, Sehwag cut me. Next ball I bowled on off stump, he cuts me. Next ball I bowled on middle stump, he cuts me.

"The next ball I bowl on leg stump, he again cuts me. So I said 'what the hell is happening'. So I just bowled a ball fuller, Sehwag stepped out and slugged me out for a six," Ashwin said.

Ashwin, who was struggling to win a place in the Indian team at the time, ran out of ideas.

"So I said to myself either I am just not good enough or this guy is just way too good ... which he was. But to the greater Sachin Tendulkar also, I didn't struggle with bowling so much in the nets too. I was very inquisitive. I observed this for a few days.

"But then I couldn't hold myself back, I went to him (Sehwag) and asked, 'so what should I do to improve'. If I had ask to Sachin, he would have given me some tips. If it were MS, he would have given me a perspective," he said.

"Viru said 'You know what, I don't think off-spinners are bowlers. They do not trouble me at all. I just find it easy smashing them'. I said 'Sir you are cutting me'. He said, 'Yeah, I hit off-spinners against the spin on the off side and for left-arm spinners, I will hit against the spin on the leg side.

"I said, 'okay, fine'. The next day I tried something in the nets he again started hitting me in different zones. He was actually treating me like a road-rag. Like how I would treat a 10 year-old kid, if I was batting against him," he recalled.

After being thrashed during net sessions on multiple occasions by Sehwag, Ashwin finally managed to figure out a way to get the better of the hard-hitting batsman.

He found out that the best possible plan against Sehwag was to bowl every single ball as best rubbish ball.

"So the best possible plan against Sehwag was to bowl every single single ball as best rubbish ball that you can give. And I got him out a few times in the IPL that way. Because what he expects is not what you dish out. Because he expects you to bowl good balls," said Ashwin.

"So basically for Sehwag, it was very simple, he hit people on good balls. So my simple strategy to Sehwag was to bowl rubbish balls. And it worked. Because when you start bowling rubbish balls, he starts dictating the pace to you with your rubbish balls or your so-called against him."

Ashwin also said that Sehwag was least interested in team meetings to discuss strategy.

"He (Sehwag) just wanted to see the ball and hit it. He used to be the least participative during team meetings," he said.

"There used to be team meetings or huddles, followed by a short speech addressed by Gary (Kirsten). MS (Dhoni) would then take over, would not utter a word and said everything is good. That was how team meetings would end," revealed Ashwin.

 

Link- https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/virender-sehwag-had-a-demoralising-effect-on-me-reveals-ravichandran-ashwin-1708838

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Sehwag was a game changer like few others. For an opener to average around 50 with a SR of 80+ and score 2 triple tons (with another near one) is unheard of. Sehwag is responsible for Warner being backed by Aus coz they saw the impact Sehwag made as an opener.

 

Lot of people say that you can't win a match in one session but can surely lose it in one. Sehwag was the only one I saw who changed that age old adage. Sehwag could and did change matches in one session :hail: 

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1 hour ago, maniac said:

Hint that this sucking up means he might be the coach now :nervous:

 Sure might have been true but the timing is suspect

He was asked this question in the interview about and he answered......this guy has asked most of his guest about sehwag in previous season to 

https://www.viu.com/in-hindi/en/video-wtd_2_ravichandran_ashwin-1160860304?containerId=331_0_2&utm_source=VIU_IN_WTD2

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5 hours ago, maniac said:

Hint that this sucking up means he might be the coach now :nervous:

 Sure might have been true but the timing is suspect

Sehwag is never going to be the coach.  What he says is true. This is not the first time Ashwin has given an elaborate anecdote. Ash is already an Indian GOAT.

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Sehwag was the most ruthless spinner killer we have produced. Absolutely murdered spinners. Ive seen even Lara struggle a bot against offspin at times. But Sehwag has never been suspect against spin. 

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12 hours ago, maniac said:

Hint that this sucking up means he might be the coach now :nervous:

 Sure might have been true but the timing is suspect

LOL Ash is already an Indian ATG. It doesn't matter who the coach is, he will play majority of our fixtures. 

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7 hours ago, sscomp32 said:

If anybody hasn't watched this show please watch including season 1. This show is a riot. :rofl: 

 

Yup this ashwin episode was unexpectedly very funny.....didnt expect him to have such a good humor 

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Yup this ashwin episode was unexpectedly very funny.....didnt expect him to have such a good humor 

I liked that gully cricket incident. He couldn't take a run vs kxip in an Ipl match and it got tied and eventually csk lost. Some guy taunted in the middle of a gully cricket match why he couldn't take one run. :rofl:

 

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1 hour ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Yup this ashwin episode was unexpectedly very funny.....didnt expect him to have such a good humor 

That bit about Kris Srikanth using Ashwin's Idli Sambar plate as an ash tray while he was eating it was hilarious :cantstop: 

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