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Ravichandran Ashwin (Source: Twitter)
Star India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has decoded the pressure tactics played by others against the Indian Cricket Team. Speaking about the upcoming ODI World Cup, Ashwin said that others who call India the best just want to put extra pressure on Rohit Sharma and co.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Ashwin says that former players of the opposition team just pull off pressure from them and put it on India, who are already under immense pressure to deliver. He also picked five-time world champion Australia as a team to watch out for.
"Going into the ODI World Cup, Australia are one of the favourites." I know people around the world in cricket will keep saying India are favourites—in fact, all the cricketers around the world will use this as a strategy and say India are favourites before every multinational tournament. They use this strategy to reduce the pressure on themselves and put extra pressure on us. India could well be one of the favourites, but Australia is also a powerhouse", Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.
West Indies were the powerhouse: Ravichandran Ashwin
Speaking about the power shift in cricket in the last few decades, Ravichandran Ashwin said that the West Indies were a powerhouse in the 1980s. He said, "The West Indies were a powerhouse of world cricket at one point in time. I will just take you back in time; they just won the 1975 and 1979 ODI World Cups as if it were a time machine."
"They were all but favourites to win the 1983 World Cup too, but India won the Prudential World Cup in 1983 thanks to that extraordinary catch of Kapil Dev to dismiss Vivian Richards and Balwinder Sandhu’s fabulous delivery to dismiss Gordon Greenidge."
"I think World Cricket's landscape changed from the West Indies being the powerhouse after that World Cup. After that 1983 World Cup, we came close in 1987 as well, but after the 1987 World Cup, Australia became the powerhouse of World Cricket, and they continue to be one of the powerhouses of World Cricket," he added.