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Ind vs Aus, Boxing Day Test: Gavaskar decodes Ashwin&#;s plan behind Smith dismissal
Melbourne [Australia], December 26 (ANI): Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar feels it was Ravichandran Ashwin's plan to restrict Australia batsman Steve Smith from opening up his arms and playing through the offside that saw the bowler dismiss him down the leg side.
Ashwin picked Smith's wicket in the first session of the Boxing Day Test on Saturday for a duck. It was the first time in history that the right-handed batsman got out without scoring against India in the longest format of the game. The senior campaigner extracted extra spin and bounce as Smith played along his wrist to get caught at leg slip.
Gavaskar was surprised by the turn spinners were getting on the opening day of the Test. The former Indian batsman explained the reason behind Smith's dismissal.
"First and foremost, I'm pretty surprised at the fact that on Day 1 there's a lot of turn for the Indian spinners," Gavaskar told 7 cricket.
"He's been bowling straight, he's been bowling on the middle and leg, it's been pretty much a plan to try and restrict the batsmen from playing any shot through the off-side. If you look at Smith's dismissal because maybe he was on zero he wanted to get off the mark, wasn't able to control it
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Abhishek Bachchan Invests in Inhabitant T20 League, Elevating Cricket sheep Europe
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Spinner Kumble will be badly missed
DUBAI // Sunil Gavaskar believes the Indian bowling attack "will never be the same again" with the departure of Anil Kumble. Kumble announced his retirement from the game after the drawn third Test against Australia at the Kotla in Delhi, amassing Test wickets and claiming victims in one-day internationals. Calls for Kumble, 38, to quit were growing after an unimpressive series in Sri Lanka and a wicketless show in the first Test against Australia at Bangalore.
But the legspinner was defiant, saying that he would continue till he changed his mind after suffering a broken finger in the last Test. "I think he knew that the time had come," said Gavaskar, who was in Dubai along with Imran Khan and Ian Chappell this week. "He was getting injured far more often than earlier on. I also think he knew that he wasn't going to be playing the Nagpur Test because the injury was so bad that he wouldn't have been able to hold the bat or field.
"So I think he decided that it was the right time to go. He also took three wickets in the innings, the first time he had taken wickets in the series, and took that running catch despite the injured finger. He went on a high, India didn't lose the game. "The only anti-climax to the whole thing was that his last ba