Do Rajasthan Royals have best spin attack in IPL history? | Cricket News – Times of India

CHENNAI: Ravichandran Ashwin said the other day that in IPL, spinners do not have much of a say and it is down to the batters and how they deal with the situation.
But on Wednesday at Chepauk, on a slightly favourable track, Rajasthan Royals – with their three top-quality spinners Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal and Adam Zampa – strangled CSK to notch up a three-run win.
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Banking on a host of quality spinners to win IPL matches has been a CSK strategy for a long time. Such was the impact of the Royals spin trio at Chepauk that Stephen Fleming said that his team got a taste of their own medicine.
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the current Royals attack has the best spin combination ever for a team in IPL history. While Ashwin is a Test legend and has been successful in white-ball cricket as well, Zampa is an immensely successful ODI and T20 bowler for the Australian team.

Chahal, on the other hand, was India’s trump card in white ball cricket for many years before losing his place to Kuldeep Yadav recently. The beauty of this spin combination is that they have different styles and all three can bowl at any time of the game.
On Wednesday, the three controlled the game from the Powerplay till the 18th over, making life difficult for the CSK batters. It doesn’t happen every day that batters like Devon Conway, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dubey and Moeen Ali fall to spinners in the same game, managing only 95 off 12 overs in a chase of 176.

“This is my second season with Ashwin and I have a good bonding. Zampa has done well and we communicate well together,” Chahal, who got 2-27, said. While Chahal and Zampa both are leggies, both have the ability to keep hitting the right spots consistently, normally the Indian being able to extract more turn than the Aussie.

Ashwin, on the other hand, has a bagful of tricks and he brings that into play, the way he did at Chepauk on Wednesday night.
“I bowl in different phases of the game, so it is important for me to try different things. For that I need to keep things simple, but that only happens when I have an element of mastery over my craft. With the years of experience, I would like to believe that I have developed that and I am really enjoying my bowling,” Ashwin, the Man of the Match, said.

His control over the craft was in full view when he set up left-hander Dubey with a few deliveries that turned away from him and then brought one back to catch him in front of the stumps. “I like deceiving batsmen in flight and I knew Dubey was their designated spin hitter, but I didn’t have a plan for him,” Ashwin said.