Indian team extremely disappointed claims Ravichandran Ashwin – Cricket News Update
Indian spinner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228 claims that his team were extremely disappointed after seemingly cruising to their second consecutive away series whitewash, but insisted that its part of the game and shunned any suggestions of embarrassment.
“We are extremely disappointed but there is no need for embarrassment,” said Ashwin.
The Australians were just 4 wickets away from propelling their opponents to another 4-0 series defeat after dominating Day 4 of the fourth and final Test match at Adelaide.
Following their captain’s decision of not to enforce a follow on, the hosts piled on more runs in their second innings before finally declaring on 167 for 5 with the main contributor being veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377, who remained unbeaten on 60.
It meant that the visitors needed to chase a record target of 500 – a feat never achieved in the longer version of cricket. They again started poorly with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RJ-Harris-c2330 but an aggressive knock from stand in skipper,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739 held the innings together.
However, his tame dismissal, off spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gates-c58585 to open, with the Kangaroo bowlers duly capitalizing in the final session on Day 3 to bring themselves a whisker away from claiming a 4-0 win.
At stumps, the Men In Blue made 166 for 6, having lost all recognized batters – needing still over 300 runs.
Ashwin, who had a reasonable match with five scalps, was disappointed with the overall display his side put on through the courses of the series but insisted that it was nothing too dramatic.
"It's a sport and at the end of the day we have all competed hard at the ground, it's not like we've chucked it away," Ashwin said."We've given it everything we had, yes, we've come up short on occasions.
"We have not seized the initiatives and we've not enough reserves in the bank to do it, but at the end of the day we are extremely disappointed," added Ashwin.
Following their humiliating Test capitulation, the Indians will next battle in the T20 arena before taking part in the tri-series Down Under, which also involves http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
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