SA v AUS 2020: Ashton Agar aspires to become like India's Ravindra Jadeja

Agar became the second Australian to pick a T20I hat-trick.

Agar was adjudged Player of the Match | Getty Images

Australia spinner Ashton Agar on Friday (February 21) produced a sensational hat-trick to help the tourists to win the first T20I match by 107 runs in the three-match Twenty20 International series against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

The left-arm spinner finished with career-best figures of 5 for 24 to help Australia to restrict South Africa to 89 runs in Johannesburg, as a result, the tourists thrashed the hosts by 107 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20I series on Friday.

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With a hat-trick in Johannesburg, Agar became the only second Australian to achieve the feat in the shortest format of the game after Brett Lee, who achieved the feat in 2007, while his figures 5/24 was the best bowling figures for an Australian bowler in the T20I format.

Following his record outing in the Johannesburg T20I, Agar revealed he aspires to become like “rockstar” Ravindra Jadeja, introducing the India all-rounder as his favorite player in the world.

As per reports in ESPNcricinfo, Agar said: “I had a wonderful chat with Ravindra Jadeja after the India series. He's my favorite player in the world - I want to play cricket as he does. He's an absolute rockstar: smacks them, gun fielder, and spins the ball.”

The spinner signed off by saying, “But it's just his presence when he's out there, watching his confidence... just talking to him about spin bowling, keep trying to spin the ball. When he's batting he has a really positive attitude, and he takes that attitude into the field as well.”

Australia will now take on South Africa in the second T20I on Sunday, February 23.

(With ESPNcricinfo Inputs)

 
 

By Rashmi Nanda - 22 Feb, 2020

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