Ashwin will play crucial role: Bumrah

Adelaide: Nathan Lyon has been using the rough patches effectively during the ongoing Indian second innings which is an indicator that R. Ashwin will have a bigger role to play during Australian second innings, reckons pacer Jasprit Bumrah. “Ashwin will obviously play a more crucial now role because with the rough, we saw Nathan Lyon using the rough to his advantage. He is an experienced bowler and knows what he has to do. So he will probably work on it and he will play a crucial role for sure,” Bumrah said. “We were trying to figure out the lengths that are useful over here. In South Africa and England, there was a lot of lateral movement. Here the wickets are slightly flatter because you get bounce, but you have to be consistent. That's the thing we have read over the years. We were trying to focus on that, that if we don't give runs, we are creating pressure from both ends and then we could get wickets,” said Bumrah.