Colombo: Virat Kohli yesterday gave a thumbs up to spinner R Aswin's aggressive style of bowling as the India captain savoured a crushing 278-run series-levelling victory over Sri Lanka, here yesterday.


Ravichandran Ashwin (arms raised) celebrates with skipper Virat Kohli (right) the wicket of Dimuth Karunaratne against Sri Lanka at the P Sara Oval in Colombo yesterday. Pic/Solaris Images 

Off-spinner Ashwin has picked 17 wickets in two matches and for second successive time in this series, India were able to achieve their target of taking 20 wickets. "Ashwin has been a champion bowler for us. He's been taking wickets for us everywhere. Even on the Australia tour he was more aggressive with the ball.