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Former English batsman Kevin Pietersen has shared some valuable advice with the English batsmen ahead of their tour of India as they face the looming threat of Ravichandran Ashwin’s off-spin bowling.
India are set to play England in five Tests, with the first Test beginning on next Thursday (January 25) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad.
England are not exceptional players of spin, and will be up against the greatest spin-bowling duo of this generation in Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.
Pietersen, however, feels that the Englishmen can nullify their spin threats if they follow a certain set of instructions.
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Kevin Pietersen tells England how to tackle Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja
In an interview with former English player Mike Atherton for The Times, Pietersen highlighted how he tackled spin during the tour of India in 2012, which England won 2-1.
Remember, Pietersen scored a brilliant 186-run knock off just 233 runs in the second Test of that tour in Mumbai.
During that knock, Pietersen attacked Ashwin and picked up his ‘doosra’ to great effect.
I picked Ashwin’s ‘doosra’. He used to load the ball at the back of his run-up, and I think he still does that now. He never ran up with the ball in his hand as an off spinner and changed it late for the doosra; you can’t do that. He loaded it up early.
I was 100 per cent confident when he was going to bowl it and you’d see how many times I hit him over the off side. I’d see the doosra at the back of his mark and, because he had a stacked leg-side field because the ball was turning so much, I’d think ‘four or six.’
Then, he also claimed that facing Jadeja boils down to how solid one’s technique is, and that the 35-year-old “is no [Muttiah] Muralitharan or Shane Warne.”
I faced Jadeja a lot. It’s about technique. Jadeja is not Murali and he’s not Shane Warne. He’s a left-arm spinner that bowls it one way and occasionally gets the ball to slide on. If your technique is solid enough to play the ball that skids on, you should be fine.
If your feet are good, and you are not planting your front foot and you are playing down the line of the ball, you should be fine. Just make sure you are not getting bowled or lbw.
If you nick it to slip, no problem at all. If you get bowled or lbw that’s a big issue. You have so much time to wait for the ball and then judge length or line and then move.
What is the schedule of India’s Test series against England?
India and England will contest in five Test matches, with the first Test scheduled to begin on January 25 in Hyderabad. Here’s the full schedule for the Test series:
- 1st Test: January 25-29, Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad
- 2nd Test: February 2-6, ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
- 3rd Test: February 15-19, Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot
- 4th Test: February 23-27, JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi
- 5th Test: March 3-7, HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala
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