Silver Silva
International Regular
Secondly , the Sri Lanka Ashwin faced was not incredibly weak to be a non factor in this debate and not one that can be compared to present day West Indies ..
On his first tour to SL in 2015 he faced Karunaratne, Sangakkara , Mathews and Chandimal ..
Karunaratne averages over 50 at home , Mathews 44 , Chandimal 48 , Sangakkara 60 .. There are some SENA nations that Kumble faced in a test that didn't have 4 or more batsmen averaging above 40 at home .
I hate to admit this , but Ashwin basically retired Kumar Sangakkara from Tests in that series ..
I have never seen a spinner bully Sangakkara like that in a home series ..Ashwin got him out 4 times in 4 innings ..We were all shocked watching this at home ..That's when I knew this Ashwin guy is special ..He has made some of the best left handers in the game look very ordinary ie. Sanga , Cook , Warner etc ..
And this was no Sangakkara on the wane , he scored close to 1500 test runs in a calender year the previous year, and early in the year he got an amazing double hundred in New Zealand at Basin Reserve ..
Its a series that doesn't get talked often enough because it was a great duel between two great spinners in Herath v Ashwin
On his first tour to SL in 2015 he faced Karunaratne, Sangakkara , Mathews and Chandimal ..
Karunaratne averages over 50 at home , Mathews 44 , Chandimal 48 , Sangakkara 60 .. There are some SENA nations that Kumble faced in a test that didn't have 4 or more batsmen averaging above 40 at home .
I hate to admit this , but Ashwin basically retired Kumar Sangakkara from Tests in that series ..
I have never seen a spinner bully Sangakkara like that in a home series ..Ashwin got him out 4 times in 4 innings ..We were all shocked watching this at home ..That's when I knew this Ashwin guy is special ..He has made some of the best left handers in the game look very ordinary ie. Sanga , Cook , Warner etc ..
And this was no Sangakkara on the wane , he scored close to 1500 test runs in a calender year the previous year, and early in the year he got an amazing double hundred in New Zealand at Basin Reserve ..
Its a series that doesn't get talked often enough because it was a great duel between two great spinners in Herath v Ashwin
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