{"id":5398,"date":"2023-02-04T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=276842"},"modified":"2023-02-04T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:44:01","slug":"former-indian-batsman-reacts-to-team-australias-ashwin-fear-ahead-of-border-gavaskar-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/former-indian-batsman-reacts-to-team-australias-ashwin-fear-ahead-of-border-gavaskar-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Indian batsman reacts to team Australia\u2019s \u201cAshwin fear\u201d ahead of Border Gavaskar Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former India batter Wasim Jaffer took a jab at Australia, claiming that R Ashwin has already gotten into the visitors\u2019 heads well before the start of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, a much-anticipated four-match series beginning February 9.<\/p>\n<p>Jaffer was reacting to the pre-series hype centred on India\u2019s off-spinner after Australia trained against a \u2018Ashwin impersonator\u2019 during their four-day camp in Alur, near Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How are the Aussies preparing for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashwinravi99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashwinravi99<\/a> ahead of their upcoming Test series with India? Well, they've only gone and flown in a near carbon copy of the star off-spinner as a net bowler | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvAUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvAUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l9IPv6i43j\">pic.twitter.com\/l9IPv6i43j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketcomau\/status\/1621453489137418241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cFirst Test is five days away and Ashwin <\/span>is already inside Aus head,\u201d tweeted Wasim<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First Test is five days away and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashwinravi99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashwinravi99<\/a> is already inside Aus head \ud83d\ude05 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvAUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvAUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BorderGavaskarTrophy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BorderGavaskarTrophy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H1BNpj3PP8\">https:\/\/t.co\/H1BNpj3PP8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WasimJaffer14\/status\/1621767770869489664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the KSCA Ground in Alur, Australia hired Baroda off-spinner Mahesh Pithiya to bowl at their batters. Instead of playing a practise match ahead of the Test series, Australia has been training on scuffed-up pitches in Alur against Indian net bowlers. Mahesh, who made his first-class debut in December last year, was flown in from Vadodara after Australian support staff discovered videos of his bowling style, which resembles Ashwin\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India batter Wasim Jaffer took a jab at Australia, claiming that R Ashwin has already gotten into the visitors\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[556,3431,1088,1214],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ashwin","tag-australia","tag-border-gavaskar-trophy","tag-wasim-jaffer"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}