: 1st Test: Juggling three top-class spinners is challenging, says Rohit after Ashwin, Jadeja, Axar help India thrash Australia #IndiaNEWS #Sports Nagpur, Feb 11 (IANS) Test skippers all over the world

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1st Test: Juggling three top-class spinners is challenging, says Rohit after Ashwin, Jadeja, Axar help India thrash Australia #IndiaNEWS #Sports
Nagpur, Feb 11 (IANS) Test skippers all over the world may envy him for having the services of Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel, especially when playing in India, but captain Rohit Sharma said handling the three spinners is a headache, albeit a pleasant one, and nag him all the time as they want to bowl all the time and are aware of approaching milestones.
Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar starred both with the ball and bat as India handed Australia innings and 132-run defeat in the first Test at the VCA Stadium here on Saturday.
Jadeja claimed 5-47 as Australia were bowled out for 177 in their first innings. He then struck a crucial 70 with the bat and along with Rohit Sharma (120), Axar Patel (84), Shami (37) helped India post 400 runs in their first innings which virtually sealed Australias fate. Ashwin, who shared a vital partnership with Rohit, coming in as nightwatchman, then demolished Australias second innings with 5-37 as they were bundled out for 91, succumbing to a huge defeat.
The Indian skipper said having three spinners like them was a big advantage but juggling them around while bowling is a huge challenge.
Yeah, its a little tough, honestly, because they are all reaching their milestones. Jaddu was telling me hes 249 wickets. Hes been telling me all day that Ashwin has four wickets. Hes closer to five wickets. Hes saying I want to bowl. Yeah, so that is a challenge Im facing at the moment with these guys because I really dont know too much about the milestones, but these guys are quite aware of it, Rohit said in the post-match press conference here on Saturday.
So yeah, thats the challenge of calming them rather than thinking about which end to give them or not. But again, all three guys are quite quality spinners, I mean, so you know. Whichever end is more helpful, all three spinners want to bowl from that end, thats obvious. But the pressure is always on me to find the right end for the right one. But yeah, its a challenge. But again I try to play a little bit of the match-up game as well, you know, match-ups as in Ash has a good matchup against left-handers, he added.
Rohit said he was surprised by Australia collapsing in one session like that because the pitch was still good and the Indians were actually getting ready for a hard grind.
I didnt expect Australia to collapse like that because I thought the pitch was good. We were prepared to have hard days of, you know, bowling and spending time on the field, session after session. We never thought that you know, theyll get bowled out in a session because as you saw the pitch became slow and slow. There was not much bounce in the pitch. So yeah, it was a bit of a surprise for me, Rohit said.

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