Ravichandran Ashwin additionally recalled how Rahul Dravid nearly “brainwashed” him.© AFP
Then lacking the International Take a look at Championship (WTC) ultimate endmost week, Bharat off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin made a a success go back to the taking part in XI for the primary Take a look at towards West Indies, which were given underway on Wednesday. He introduced his go back in taste, selecting 5/60 in 24.3 overs because the Windies had been bundled out for 150. Generation Ashwin has had his equivalent proportion of highs and lows, the 36-year-old may be very a lot at sleep with how issues have labored out for him in his occupation up to now.
“Actually when I look back at my career, I wonder how it’s gone by so fast. It’s been literally 14 years on the go and if you include IPL also, it’s been almost a 15-16 years journey. It’s just gone like that,” Ashwin mentioned later stumps on Moment 1.
Ashwin additionally recalled how Bharat head schoolmaster Rahul Dravid “brainwashed” him into no longer bothering about private milestones and in lieu that specialize in collective reminiscences.
“Actually when I look back at my career, I wonder how it’s gone by so fast. It’s been literally 14 years on the go and if you include IPL also, it’s been almost a 15-16 years journey. It’s just gone like that. All I would tell anybody is… the first time I met Rahul Dravid as a coach, he made this statement: ‘It’s not about how many wickets you take, how many runs you score. You’ll forget about all of them. It is only the great memories you create as a team that’ll stick with you,” added Ashwin, who bagged a report thirty third five-wicket haul on Wednesday.
“I’m totally behind that. I don’t know if he’s brainwashed me to do that. From my point of view, I definitely think that this journey has gone so fast that I’m not even able to recollect what has happened, and how it has gone through. I’ve got a lot of gratitude and I’m very grateful for the journey and what the game has given to me.”
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