Ravi Ashwin run-out: Twitterati finds faults with Ashwin’s disappointing running between the wickets at the SCG

Ravi Ashwin run-out: The Indian spinner was found wanting while running between the wickets at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

During the third day of third Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia in Sydney, India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was severely criticized for his dismal running between the wickets which led to his dismissal.

It all happened on the second delivery of the 93rd over when India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja hit a Cameron Green delivery towards mid-off and instantly called for a single.

In what should’ve been an easy single for both the batsmen, Ashwin’s sluggish work resulted in his departure. Never looking like completing the single successfully, Ashwin not diving or making a desperate effort further worked against him even when it wasn’t a direct-hit by Australia vice-captain Pat Cummins.

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Coming in to bat at No. 8 in the 89th over, Ashwin walked back to the pavilion after scoring 10 (15) with the help of two fours as India lost their fourth wicket in the second session today.

What was all the more disappointing from an Indian point of view was that batsman Hanuma Vihari also gifted his wicket in the form of a run-out this morning.

Trailing by more than 100 runs in the first innings, the visitors are surely on the back foot in the match until Jadeja plays a blinder of an knock.

Ravi Ashwin run-out

Today is the day this series turns in Australia’s favour. #AusvInd

— Chetan Narula (@chetannarula) January 9, 2021

How can you not complete that run when it’s not even a direct throw! This is poor from India. First Pujara keeps blocking which will never work, then Vihari does the same, then the Pant injury and now this. Test match being handed to Australia.

— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) January 9, 2021

Run-outs are a gift to the opposition.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) January 9, 2021

OUT!

Not been a good session for Team India post lunch, we lose our 7th wicket with Ashwin run-out by Cummins 😔

🇮🇳 206/7 in 92.2 overs#AUSvIND

— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) January 9, 2021

R. Ashwin is probably the most unfit sportsperson to have played professional sport for 10 odd years.

— The-Lying-Lama 2.0 (@KyaUkhaadLega) January 9, 2021

Ashwin is such an intelligent, precise cricketer, but that was poor. Slow off the mark, slow while actually running, then didn’t ground the bat or dive. India have been too sloppy, too often, to win this Test. #AUSvIND

— Ben Jones (@benjonescricket) January 9, 2021

Run out again… Ravi chandran Ashwin …God have mercy!! I just can’t understand how he survived this long in the Indian team with this kind of fitness, he is lazy as a duck. Get rid of him. Indian staring at another defeat in Sydney. RIP .. Ashwin laziness!!!!!!🤮🤮

— Freddy Thomas (@FreddyT12606401) January 9, 2021

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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