Between September 2018 and March 2019, Rayudu became India’s No. 4 batting solution. Rayudu scored 639 runs in 21 ODIs over a six-month span, including one century and four fifties, following his participation in the 2018 IPL, where he attained his T20 batting peak by smashing 602 runs. And while these weren’t terrible figures by any stretch of the imagination, Rayudu was surprisingly left out of India’s World Cup squad for England. They instead proceeded with KL Rahul as their No. 4 and brought in all-rounder Vijay Shankar based on his IPL performances that year – an experiment whose strata unraveled as the tournament progressed.

Kumble calls Rayudu’s 2019 World Cup drop a blunder

Anil Kumble, a legend of Indian bowling, considers it a “mistake” that Rayudu did not board the flight to England four years after that controversial decision. Rayudu had just ended a magnificent career. After six months of preparation, the former India coach believes it was a major mistake for then-captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri to leave Rayudu off the team at the last minute.

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“Rayudu ought to have participated in the 2019 World Cup. Yes, there is no question about it. It was a monumental error. You spent so much time preparing him for this role, yet his name suddenly vanishes from the squad. It was nonetheless startling,” Kumble said on Jio Cinema when the IPL 2023 final was postponed due to rain following the Gujarat Titans’ innings.

What happened to Rayudu after 2019 World Cup omission?

The decision to exclude Rayudu had significant repercussions. Rayudu tweeted, “Just ordered a new pair of 3D glasses to watch the World Cup” in response to former chief selector MSK Prasad’s remark that “Vijay Shankar is a 3D (3-dimensional) player.” Rayudu even momentarily announced his retirement during India’s World Cup campaign, before retracting the statement. Rayudu never played for India again, which will go down in history as one of the most enigmatic conclusions to an international career.

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With his 6 wickets against Australia, Ashwin passed Kumble’s 111 scalps to become India’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy wicket-taker with 113. Ashwin also broke another record that Kumble had held: he became the bowler in India with the most five-wicket hauls.

Not only that, but Ashwin’s performance put him on the same number of wickets as Nathan Lyon for the whole series.

Kumble praised the veteran spinner by tweeting, “Well Bowled Ashwin, Class.”

Well Bowled @ashwinravi99 Class ! 👏👍🏽

— Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) March 10, 2023

Ashwin said this about his play at the end of the second day: “No one spell is better than the other. And at different points in this series, like when we were in Delhi, I thought, “The numbers don’t give you a 5 or 6, but the ball is coming out beautifully.”

“…and the changes I’ve made, like loading and cocking my wrists, have shown that my spells are much more powerful,” he said.

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Ashwin hasn’t found it easy to bowl on the Ahmedabad pitch, as spinners haven’t been able to get much traction on the first two days. Ashwin said that he beat the batters by using the “scrambled seam.”

“It wasn’t a good pitch, so I had to use the scrambled seam, the drift, and whatever else was there.”

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