"I have put considerable amount of work into it, a good 55-60 days of work back at home with my coach. I have been trying to sort out my action and extract as much as possible from the wicket. Thankfully the results are coming," Ashwin told reporters on the eve of the fourth one-dayer here tomorrow.
The 'four-fielder outside the 30-yard circle' rule has something that has been troubling the Indian spinners and Ashwin feels that he is working around the restrictions chalking out his own plan.
Having received man-of-the-match award in the previous game, Ashwin was all praise for the fielding unit, which has been bolstered by the presence of Suresh Raina.
"We had six or seven new players coming in for the ODIs and that has obviously helped lift the team."
"This sort of thing happens (referring to dropped catches during Tests), when you have had a bad series, which was how the Tests ended for us. Now you have fresh legs coming in. It brings a bit of fresh attitude into the squad," he added.
Ashwin especially was ecstatic about Raina's reflex catch in the slips during the other game.
"That catch from Suresh Raina (at Nottingham) was amazing. The moment he caught it, I forgot that I had got a wicket and went berserk seeing the way he had taken that catch. It really motivates the whole team and other slip fielders, me being one of them as well," he added.
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