After a disappointing tour of Bangladesh, Ravichandran Ashwin will go to bed on Friday "feeling a lot better" because his spells against the Australians had "more penetration". On the second day of the fourth and final Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test against Australia in Ahmedabad, Ashwin amassed his 32nd five-wicket total in Test cricket.

Ashwin passed Ravindra Jadeja to capture the most wickets in the series with his second 5-wicket haul in 47 overs of bowling. After the conclusion of the fourth Test's second day of play, Ashwin said, "You can go to night feeling a lot better instead of having just three wickets in your kitty. Even if you don't bowl occasionally, you still feel good about getting a decent haul of wickets.

Tonight, I'll go to bed a little earlier and with more happiness. Despite the fact that Ashwin still has an inning to bowl and has 24 wickets in the series, his 6/91 in 47.2 overs will undoubtedly go down as one of his best performances on a flat deck after he had a chance to practice his craft in some spinner-friendly circumstances. "We didn't anticipate the track to play as slowly as it did, but it did.

So let's hope that as the game progresses, it becomes more difficult to play on," he said after taking his 32nd five-wicket haul. Ashwin thinks that the pitch is still favorable for hitting and that the game will only have one inning—the second—during which batting may get a little more challenging. "After a day like this as a bowler, I will be rooting for batters from the bottom of my heart. This is a game of second innings, but we have to bat well and probably see some of our top order batters get a large score and have some chance and come out batting day after tomorrow.

On day three, "Can the Indian openers score at more than three runs, or perhaps 3.5 an over?"All I know is that underneath that surface, there is enough rolling and mowed grass. In Chennai, where there is a lot of cut grass and rolling, where I frequently play cricket, I anticipate a nice, hard field that will likely break as the game progresses, though I hope not for the next five sessions.