Indian all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin shared a 32-run partnership with all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy for the seventh wicket when India scored 180 runs in the first innings of the second Pink Ball Test under the Border Gavaskar Trophy at the Adelaide Oval. The 38-year-old was criticized for his review against Mitchell Starc’s yorker in the 39th over. After losing the ball from a distance. Replays showed the ball hitting the middle stump and former England cricketer Michael Vaughan called it the ‘best’ review he had ever seen.
“I saw Rohit Sharma walking without a review. That’s one of the best reviews I’ve seen. May be going under. He misses it by a few inches, it’s fast, it has length, it has a slower shape, and now with that shape, we’ve seen it many times in Test match cricket, especially with the pink ball,” Vaughan quipped. Fox Cricket.
After Reddy (42) and Ashwin (22) added 180 runs in the first innings, India scored 87 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Ashwin’s wicket was the fifth wicket of Starc’s innings, he removed Harshit Rana to take his innings total to 6 wickets. Former Australian cricketer Mark Walle called the yorker the ball of the century. “The ball of the century was almost … that was almost unplayable.” Waff said on Fox Cricket.
Cricket writer Brydon Coverdale also shared his thoughts on the review decision. “This was Ashwin’s worst review since Roger Ebert wrote of ‘The Answer’ that ‘I hate this movie. Hate hate hate this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid empty audience-insulting moment of it,'” Coverdale wrote. .