On his fourth Test tour of Australia, Ashwin said he had "personally experienced it as well". "I take myself back to my first tour in 2011-12, I had no clue about racial abuse and how you can be made to feel small in front of so many people. And the people actually laugh at you when you get abused," he said. Advertisement "They do tend to get nasty, I don't know for what reason. Until it is dealt with people don't find it necessary to look at it in a different way. I was quite surprised that some sections of the crowd continually did it and there were not mates around them to pull them up."