LONDON: Ravichandran Ashwin stable without being extraordinary because he focused on building a bowling workload before the British test series in his first and the only appearance for Surrey in the British district championship match against Somerset.
Off-Spinner India became the slow Bowler of the first specialist in the last 11 years to open bowling in the English County game after Jeetan Patel in 2010.
Ashwin’s number after the first two sessions were read 24-5-58-1 as captain of Rory Burns, who was also the opening of the UK use it from both oval land ends.
The pitch was slow and Ashwin did not try a lot of variety and tried to hit one area consistently when he got a drift too.
Not many balls change a lot and he gets his first goal for Surrey earlier to the second session breaking the Tom Lammonby defense (42).
With Indians who did not have too many first-class games, Ashwin and BCCI took the initiative to arrange a game for him to get an overs under his belt.
The idea is to get as many overs as possible without displaying variations that can be taken by the opposition team through their opening, which is also the captain of the rival side.
Ashwin barely bent loose delivery to 25th where only five limits were discussed who scored two conventional sweepshots behind square and one slog swept in the Somerset Batsmen area.