With 9 wickets within the five-match T20I collection in opposition to Australia, younger spinner Ravi Bishnoi was one of many standout performers for India in the course of the bilateral. With solely six T20Is remaining for India forward of the showpiece, it’s honest to say that the 23-year-old has overtaken veteran leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal within the pecking order, at the least for now. Bishnoi has additionally been known as as much as India’s T20I squad for the forthcoming tour of South Africa, beginning December 10. Now, the teenager has earned large reward from legendary Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.

Muralitharan, throughout a current dialog, in contrast Bishnoi to the likes of Anil Kumble and Ravichandran Ashwin, however defined what makes the teenager a bit totally different.

“India have always had a good, uh, set of spin in every generation. You see from Anil (Kumble) to (Ravi) Ashwin to now the young guys who have come. Bishnoi is different from any other leg spinner than any other ones. He bowls quicker and he makes the ball slide a lot and Axar also is very accurate, not a big spinner of the ball and Washi also is similar because he doesn’t turn much and is very accurate and quite quicker,” Muralitharan stated on Jio Cinema.

So far, Bishnoi has appeared in 21 matches and picked up 34 wickets.

Australian skipper Matthew Wade admitted that going through Bishnoi even on a few of the batting-friendly tracks right here was not a straightforward job.

“Their spinners bowled well. They got us tied down and we couldn’t really break away in that middle period. So, that was probably the biggest difference in the game.

“Bishnoi, clearly, has been nice all through the 4 video games. He has been fairly arduous to come up with. Some of our guys with much less expertise will study rather a lot from going through him,” said Wade.