Team India began their campaign in the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-2025 with a remarkable victory in Dominica on Friday. Rohit Sharma and his boys defeated the West Indies by an innings and 141 runs in the first Test, leading the 2-1 match series 1-0. Yashasvi Jaiswal and veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin were the two major architects of the victory. While the former played a scintillating knock of 171 runs on Test debut, the veteran bowler ended up picking up a 12-wicket match haul.
The Windies batter opted to bat after winning the toss but most of them surrendered to Ashwin’s wizardry. After bagging a 5-wicket haul in the first innings, the off-spinner returned figures of 7 for 71 in the second.
Meanwhile, former Indian opener Aakash Chopra reviewed the game in his latest YouTube video in which he seemed to be in awe of the off-spinner.
“Ravichandran Ashwin is a different beast altogether. If you see his class, if the ball goes away with the arm, he gets the outside edge, and then he bowls the ball slower, and it turns after pitching, hits the pads or goes through the gap between bat and pad, or hits the bat and pad and goes to short leg,” Chopra said.
