IND vs AUS Test 2023: Australian team got duplicate player of R Ashwin. From February 9, a series of 4 Test matches will be played between India and Australia (IND vs AUS).
The first match will be Played in Nagpur:-
Whose first match will be played in Nagpur, while the Australian team is busy in its preparations in Bangalore.
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But meanwhile, a different scene was witnessed in the first training session of the visiting team.
To face the Indian bowlers, the entire Australian team including Steve Smith has found a way to get past Ravichandran Ashwin.
The visiting team is getting itself trained by a duplicate of Ashwin and this duplicate player is Mahesh Pithiya, who hails from Junagadh.
Pithia didn’t even see Ashwin bowling:-
Seeing the bowling action of Pithia, everyone called him a duplicate of R Ashwin. But till recently there was no TV in their house, until the age of 11, Pithia did not even see Ashwin bowling.
After this, when Pithia saw Ashwin bowling for the first time in 2013, he became his fan. From that day onwards, Pithiya’s phone was filled with Ashwin’s photo.
In December last year, he made his first-class debut for Baroda against Uttar Pradesh.
With this, his career progressed and during this time his method of bowling remained similar to that of Ashwin.
Ashwin can Prove to be a big threat to the Australia team:-
In this episode, Pithia is preparing Australia for the Test series against India. Ashwin can prove to be a big threat to the Australia team.
In such a situation, as soon as Australia got the footage of his duplicate, he called Pithia to the camp without delay. Australia’s full focus in the training session was on spin.
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Pithia bowled Smith, Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head all day without a break. During this, these Australian batsmen were also very upset with his bowling, as well as the training session went on for a long time.
