{"id":80214,"date":"2020-02-17T11:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=80214"},"modified":"2020-02-17T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:07:38","slug":"learnt-carrom-ball-from-a-guy-playing-tennis-ball-cricket-ravichandran-ashwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/learnt-carrom-ball-from-a-guy-playing-tennis-ball-cricket-ravichandran-ashwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Learnt carrom ball from a guy playing tennis-ball cricket: Ravichandran Ashwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ace India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed the person from whom he learnt the skills to bowl the carrom ball &#8212; a delivery through which he has bamboozled many batsmen across formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The first time I went to play a tennis ball game, I was batting. There was this guy who was bowling with a proper action, getting beautiful drift and getting the ball to go nicely out and in. Till today I can&#8217;t find where the guy is but I haven&#8217;t seen a better bowler who can bowl both in and out than him in my life. His name is SK. He was the one from whom I learnt that ball,&#8221; Ashwin said on a Cricbuzz show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Basically he was the one who made me look like an absolute idiot on that particular day. I was a big thing around the tennis ball circuit as a batsman then, so I said I need to learn from this guy. So I used to go every morning, and he used to come and teach me for about 10-15 days,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s Ajantha Mendis is touted to have introduced this delivery during his debut in 2008, earning him the tag of being a &#8216;mystery spinner&#8217; for quite some time.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ace India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed the person from whom he learnt the skills to bowl the carrom ball &#8212; a delivery through which he has bamboozled many batsmen across formats. &#8220;The first time I went to play a tennis ball game, I was batting. There was this guy who was bowling with a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80216,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80214\/revisions\/80216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}