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India v England, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 4th day

A hard day's fight

Nov 18, 2012: India knew there would be long sessions in the field at some point - though you wonder whether DRS may have crossed their minds, even momentarily

India v England, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, 3rd day

England openers fight but India in command

Nov 17, 2012: India's spinners, R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha, dismissed England for 191 on the third but the visitors fought back in their second innings

England in India 2012-13

Important to share ideas with spin partner - Ashwin

Nov 14, 2012: Spin duo R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha in conversation with ESPNcricinfo

England in India 2012-13

England shrug off new Ashwin mystery ball

Nov 12, 2012: England have dismissed the threat of a new mystery ball that R Ashwin claims to have developed

How Ashwin can turn his class to world-class

Nov 10, 2012: He has a terrific temperament for spin bowling and doesn't alter his plans just because he gets hit for a six. All he needs to do now is work on his fitness

India news

Ashwin awarded top BCCI contract

Oct 26, 2012: R Ashwin has been named in the top bracket of the BCCI's central contracts for the first time, while Harbhajan Singh has been demoted

India v South Africa, Super Eights, World Twenty20, Colombo

The ugliest shot of them all

Oct 2, 2012: ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the Super Eights match between India and South Africa

Aus v Ind, World T20 2012, Super Eights, Colombo

'Rain hampered spinners' - Dhoni

Sep 28, 2012: MS Dhoni has blamed rain for making the India bowlers ineffective against Shane Watson and David Warner in his side's heavy defeat to Australia

ICC World Twenty20 2012

Lessons from Yuvraj put India in right frame of mind

Sep 14, 2012: India look a side that is comfortable about the challenges that lie ahead, and one cannot help but think that for them this World Twenty20 somehow comes down to the Yuvraj Singh story

India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Hyderabad, 4th day

Mental capitulation against spin - Taylor

Aug 26, 2012: Ross Taylor has said New Zealand's capitulation to R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha in the Hyderabad Test was more to do with a mental block against spin than technical shortcomings

India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Hyderabad, 4th day

An increasingly threatening partnership

Aug 26, 2012: R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha have an excellent record bowling together at home and could play a critical role in tougher tests ahead

India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Hyderabad, 4th day

Ashwin spins India to innings win

Aug 26, 2012: For all that spin bowling is considered an art involving guile and deception, India's spinners took apart the New Zealand batting with the precision of surgeons combined with the calculations of mathematicians

India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Hyderabad, 2nd day

Rain respite for New Zealand after follow-on

Aug 25, 2012: When a second-session downpour ended play on the third day of the Test in Hyderabad, India had New Zealand following on in their second innings at 41 for 1

India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Hyderabad, 2nd day

Patel banks on New Zealand's ability to fight

Aug 24, 2012: Jeetan Patel, the New Zealand offspinner, has said his side can 'fight' and come back in the Hyderabad Test

India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Hyderabad, 2nd day

Patience the key for Ashwin

Aug 24, 2012: Still only 25, Ashwin needs to show more patience to be successful. So do the others who expect him to deliver each time

India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Hyderabad, 2nd day

Spinners put India in charge

Aug 24, 2012: New Zealand were reminded of what was going to be the tougher of their two tasks on this brief tour of India. Not so much bowling against the Indian batting on the country's slow, low turners, but batting on them

India's bare spin cupboard

Jul 5, 2012: Kumble's successor, Harbhajan, has faded, and the likes of Ashwin and Mishra aren't quite up to scratch yet

R Ashwin

'I know more about offspin than Sachin'

Apr 4, 2012: The India and Chennai bowler on the one thing he can beat Tendulkar at, and being a bit of a cricket nerd

India v Sri Lanka, CB Series, Brisbane

Ashwin warned Thirimanne before 'Mankading' - Sehwag

Feb 21, 2012: Virender Sehwag has said R Ashwin had warned Lahiru Thirimanne before running him out for backing up too much before the ball was bowled

India v Sri Lanka, CB Series, Brisbane

India let Thirimanne off the hook

Feb 21, 2012: Ashwin had appealed, Thirimanne was not inside his crease, the finger should have gone up immediately. Spirit of cricket should not have been allowed to come in the way of fair cricket