Today was another perfect attrition day for us, says Ashwin

TIL Desk Sports/ India’s off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin praised the bowlers for their performance on the second day of the first Test against Australia here on Friday. Travis Head’s fighting 61 off 149 balls helped Australia reach 191/7 at stumps after Ashwin took three top-order wickets and helped the visitors dominate the day’s play.

Apart from him, Ishant Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah took two wickets each. “We don’t isolate it as a fast bowling or spin bowling pack. We identify it as a bowling unit together because one cannot exist without the other. Today was another perfect attrition day for us,” Ashwin said at the post-match press conference.

“Ithought we really bottled them up, soaked them up and put on pressure from bothends,” Ashwin, the most successful visiting bowler with figures of 3/50,added. Australia trailed by 59 runs and Ashwin said the Test was still on equalterms. “I bowled an extended 22-over spell even before and after tea tomake sure that we do not give away more runs. “I see it as neck-and-neckin the game.