World Cup 2023 / Rohit Sharma will make a mistake by playing Ashwin! Chepauk's records scare

World Cup 2023: Team India will start its campaign in the World Cup-2023 with a match against Australia on October 8. This match will be played in Chennai. Both the teams would like to start the tournament with a win. Before the match, there is a dilemma for Team India, because the question before captain Rohit Sharma is whether he should go with three fast bowlers and 2 spinners or with 2 fast bowlers and 3 spinners. However, according to the news agency, Rohit can go with Ashwin, which means that Team India can field 3 spinners in Chepauk. Apart from Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav can be other spinners.

Ravichandran Ashwin practiced vigorously in the nets on Thursday, due to which it is being speculated that he may get a place in the playing eleven in India's first match against Australia on October 8 in the World Cup. Ashwin can be included as the third spinner along with Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav in place of Shardul Thakur, as it is believed that the pitch can help the slow bowlers.

Let us tell you that Ashwin has been included in India's World Cup team due to injury to Axar Patel. Ashwin bowled to Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, Shardul Thakur and other batsmen for long periods. He also batted in the nets.

Fast bowlers have dominated in Chepauk

Fast bowlers have been more successful than spinners in Chepauk. Here spinners have taken 88 ODI wickets and pacers have taken 138 wickets. In the last 3 seasons of IPL, spinners have taken 96 wickets and fast bowlers have taken 135 wickets. These figures show that only the fast bowlers have been a hit here and if Rohit takes the field keeping an eye on the figures, he will decide to play only three bowlers in Sunday's match.

There are only 2 spinners in the list of top-5 bowlers at Chepauk. Let us tell you that it is difficult to score runs on the slow and low pitch of Chennai. Bowlers who change pace on slow pitches have an advantage. Here Mohammad Rafiq of Bangladesh has taken 8 wickets, Harbhajan Singh has taken 7 wickets, Ajit Agarkar has taken 7 wickets, Morne Morkel of South Africa has taken 7 wickets and Bhuvneshwar Kumar has taken 6 wickets.

The secret of Chennai pitch?

A total of 22 matches have been played so far at Chepauk Stadium. The team batting first has won 13 times. The chasing team has been successful 8 times in Chennai. The average score of the first innings at Chepauk is 242 runs. There has not been a score of 300 plus in ODI here for 16 years. From these figures you can understand how difficult it is to score runs at Chepauk. In that era of cricket where scores of 350 have become common, there has not been a score of more than 300 in this ground for 16 years.