Image Source : GETTY Senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin
Senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed that the Indian gamers weren’t allowed to share the elevate with their Australian counterparts throughout the Sydney Test, one thing the guests discovered “too difficult to digest”.
The third Test of the recently-concluded four-match sequence was performed on the Sydney Cricket Ground and all through the tour, gamers and help staffs of each the groups stayed in a bio bubble resulting from menace posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We reached Sydney, they locked us with severe restrictions. There was a unique thing that happened in Sydney. It was strange, to be honest. Both India and Australia were in the same bubble. But when Australian players were in the lift, they won’t allow Indian players inside it,” Ashwin stated.
The seasoned spinner made the revelation throughout a YouTube video chat with India’s fielding coach R Sridhar.
Ashwin added, “Seriously guys? We felt so unhealthy at the moment. We are in the identical bubble. But you get into the elevate and you’ll’t share the area with one other particular person staying in the identical bubble. It was too troublesome for us to digest.
“We are all in the same bubble, but you get into the lift and share the lift space!”
The Test was additionally marked by allegations of racial abuse in opposition to Indian pacers Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah.
In the matches that he had performed earlier than lacking the series-deciding fourth Test resulting from a again damage, Ashwin contributed considerably and helped India stage an unimaginable turnaround that noticed the guests declare the rubber 2-1.
Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari — each combating accidents — batted for greater than 5 hours on the ultimate day of the Sydney Test to assist India obtain an inconceivable draw and maintain the sequence locked at 1-1.
In the ultimate Test at Brisbane’s Gabba, India chased down a file goal of 328 to beat Australia by three wickets and break the house group’s unbeaten run of 32 years on the venue.
