The former India left-hander puts down the ability to change batting style to Ashwin’s experience. “With experience you learn to evaluate risk and reward.”
Ashwin had on Monday said that he was initially a batsman who would try and imitate Harbhajan Singh’s bowling action.
In fact, the off-spinner had played for India under-17 as a pure batsman. But then after failing to get enough runs, he was dropped even from one of Tamil Nadu’s age-group teams by a state selection panel of which Sivaramakrishnan was a member.
“It was at that time I told Ashwin that I will make you a bowler and told him to focus on becoming a bowler,” said Subramaniam who was his personal coach till 2014.
The thought behind it was that batting can be developed anytime later once you make your mark as a bowler, explains Subramaniam.
“I told him your bowling is better than your batting, so focus…