IND vs NZ Live: R Ashwin back in controversy again: India’s off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin landed yet again in a controversy on Day 3 of the Kanpur Test. Ashwin was seen arguing with the on-field umpires after allegedly blocking Nitin Menon’s vision in his follow-through. Follow InsideSport.in for more updates
Nitin Menon was seen having a long chat with R Ashwin about his follow-through when the off-spinner went across the stumps from round the wicket and India’s stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane too joined the conversation.
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The incident took place in the 77th over of New Zealand’s innings. R Ashwin who was bowling round the wicket earlier went across the stumps and umpire Nitin Menon was seen having a chat with him.
As per the on-air commentary, the discussion was about R Ashwin coming in the line of the non-striker and obstructing him to take off for a quick single along with obstructing the vision of the umpire in his follow-through.
It has been learned that Ashwin has had repeated arguments with umpires on obstructing vision and Rahul Dravid then spoke to the match referee Srinath on the incident too.
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Ravichandran Ashwin – joint leading wicket-taker in tests in 2021:
Meanwhile, R Ashwin – who has been in a prolific form, especially in the red-ball games, equaled Pakistan’s pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi’s record of 39 wickets to become the joint leading wicket-taker in Test cricket in 2021.
Both R Ashwin & Shaheen Shah Afridi have picked up 39 wickets so far in 2021 in Test cricket. Pakistan’s Hasan Ali is third on the list with 37 wickets.
| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 5 | 10 |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi (PAK) | 8* | 14 | 39 | 6/51 | 10-94 | 18.87 | 2.84 | 39.8 | 2 | 1 |
| R Ashwin (INDIA) | 7* | 13 | 39 | 6/61 | 9/207 | 19.02 | 2.55 | 44.6 | 3 | 0 |
| Hasan Ali (PAK) | 7* | 13 | 37 | 5/27 | 10/114 | 15.4 | 2.99 | 30.8 | 5 | 1 |
| JM Anderson (ENG) | 10 | 18 | 32 | 6/40 | 6/46 | 23.4 | 2.21 | 63.3 | 2 | 0 |
| OE Robinson (ENG) | 5 | 10 | 28 | 5/65 | 7/81 | 19.6 | 2.63 | 44.6 | 2 | 0 |
Meanwhile, the umpiring in the ongoing Kanpur Test has been pretty ordinary so far. A total of 6 decisions from the on-field umpires – Nitin Mennon and Virender Sharma – have been overturned, including 3 alone against New Zealand opener Tom Latham. The Kiwi opener was given out thrice on Day 1 by the on-field umpires on his way to fifty. However, Latham survived on all occasions with the help of DRS.
Former India opener and now a cricket analyst and commentator Aakash Chopra took to Twitter to show disappointment to the dismal umpiring.
Umpiring has been fairly ordinary in this Test thus far. #IndvNZ
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) November 26, 2021
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