Ravichandran ashwin, sometimes, can ruffle a few feathers with his comments, but the immensely SELF-CONFIDENT YOUNG MAN is not afraid to speak his mind and stand up for his team-mates.
Ravichandran Ashwin not only won the International Cricketer of the Year and the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year awards, but also captured the hearts of millions of cricket lovers with his tweet that said March 30 will now be known as ‘world apology day’.
Ashwin, sometimes, can ruffle a few feathers with his comments, but the immensely self-confident young man is not afraid to speak his mind and stand up for his team-mates. These are qualities only those who have been in the hurly-burly of a Test battle and are aware of the dressing room psyche can understand and appreciate. By standing up for his skipper, Ashwin has shown that this Indian team is not going to take a backward step against the opposition and will look them in the eye. Ashwin was bowling the ‘flicker’ or the ‘carromball’ as if he were flicking an annoying piece of fluff, and the fluff was Brad Hodge.
HODGE, LOOKING TO GET some brownie points in Australia, had questioned Virat Kohli’s decision to sit out the final Test because of the shoulder injury the Indian captain had suffered in the previous Test in Ranchi.
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