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England openers fight but India in command

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

17-Nov-2012•The Report by David Hopps

England shrug off new Ashwin mystery ball

England have dismissed the threat of a new mystery ball that R Ashwin claims to have developed

12-Nov-2012•George Dobell

Ashwin awarded top BCCI contract

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

26-Oct-2012•ESPNcricinfo staff

'Rain hampered spinners' - Dhoni

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

28-Sep-2012•Abhishek Purohit in Colombo

Mental capitulation against spin - Taylor

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

26-Aug-2012•Abhishek Purohit in Hyderabad

Ashwin spins India to innings win

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

26-Aug-2012•The Report by Sharda Ugra

Rain respite for New Zealand after follow-on

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

25-Aug-2012•The Report by Sharda Ugra

Patel banks on New Zealand's ability to fight

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

24-Aug-2012•Abhishek Purohit in Hyderabad

Spinners put India in charge

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

24-Aug-2012•The Report by Sharda Ugra

Ashwin warned Thirimanne before 'Mankading' - Sehwag

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

21-Feb-2012•Sidharth Monga at the Gabba

India 'disappointed' not 'embarrassed' - Ashwin

R Ashwin has clarified that India are not embarrassed by their showing in Australia, rather they are disappointed

27-Jan-2012•Sidharth Monga at the Adelaide Oval

Bowlers not carrying a mental block - Ashwin

R Ashwin admitted that India rued letting Australia off the hook, but insisted it wasn't a block in their minds

24-Jan-2012•Sidharth Monga at the Adelaide Oval

Ashwin hopes for turnaround

R Ashwin has said India's batsmen will have to stand up and deliver in the third innings

04-Jan-2012•Sidharth Monga at the SCG

Ashwin steps up preparation ahead of Tests

R Ashwin, who was the most effective of India's bowlers on day two of the tour match against the CA Chairman's XI in Canberra, has said that he has worked on his strategy ahead of the Test series

20-Dec-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Ed Cowan stakes claim with century

Opening batsman Ed Cowan then strengthened his case for a call-up to Australia's Test squad by scoring his fourth consecutive long-format hundred

20-Dec-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

R Ashwin to get Dilip Sardesai award

R Ashwin, the India offspinner, has been given the Dilip Sardesai award for being the best performer in the home Test series against West Indies

28-Nov-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Only the second draw with scores level

For only the second time in history a Test ended in a draw with the scores level, after a day of extraordinary drama at the Wankhede Stadium

26-Nov-2011•The Report by Siddarth Ravindran

Match fizzles after Ashwin century

Sachin Tendulkar missed his 100th hundred again but Ashwin's ton cut West Indies' first-innings advantage to 108, making a draw the likeliest result

25-Nov-2011•The Report by Siddarth Ravindran

India's big guns lead strong response

Several of India's batting heavyweights helped themselves to half-centuries as the home side got halfway to West Indies' 590

24-Nov-2011•The Report by Siddarth Ravindran

I felt cheated by the lack of bounce - Ashwin

R Ashwin, the India offspinner, has said he felt cheated by the lack of bounce on the Wankhede pitch in Mumbai as the West Indies batsmen batted out two days in succession to post 575 for 9

23-Nov-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

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