Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has paid rich tribute to Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, saying ‘he's a master of spin in any conditions’.
Ashwin etched his name into Indian cricket history, becoming the 14th Indian player to feature in 100 Test matches. He achieved this milestone during the ongoing fifth and final Test against England at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association stadium in Dharamsala.
Ponting lauded Ashwin’s exceptional talent. while reflecting on his coaching tenure with Ashwin at the Delhi Capitals (DC), as he described him as a spin master during a recent episode of the ICC Review.
Ricky Ponting said on the ICC Review: “He's a master of spin in any conditions. He's been an incredible cricketer, no doubt about it. I had a chance to coach him for a couple of years at Delhi, and loved working with him. He's got a lot of theories and philosophies on the game, which I really like.”
Ponting further said, “He's always done things a little bit differently and done things his own way. But he just continued to evolve as a bowler. That's the thing that I loved about him when I was coaching him, he’d stand at the end of his mark.”
He signed off by saying, “He'd be working on something different a little tweak to his action or a change of grip or a different delivery. He's never been one that was going to die wondering about trying to find ways to get better.”
(With ICC Inputs)
