R Ashwin after getting out during TNPL game. (Screengrab)Former Indian cricketer R Ashwin was seen fuming during the Tamil Nadu Premier League. The 38-year-old who plays for Dindigul Dragons was judged LBW off the bowling of Sai Kishore, who plays for IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans. Ashwin was seen in a long argument with the umpire, and he was thundering off the field and was seen hitting his pads in anger with the bat.
“Ashwin is saying ‘he has bowled this from over the stumps, ma’am’, arguing his case that it was pitched well outside leg stump,” said one of the commentators on AIR during the incident.
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Dragons could not put on much of a score after Ashwin fell. Ashwin’s 18 is the second-highest score alongside RK Jayant. Shivam Singh, with his 30, was the top scorer as the Dragons were bundled out for a mere 93 runs from 16.2 overs. Esakkimuthu A was the pick of the bowlers for Tamizhans with four wickets, with M Mathivannan picking three wickets. Skipper Sai Kishore too chipped in with a couple.
The TNPL has two DRS per innings, and when this incident happened in the fifth over, Ashwin’s team, Dindigul Dragons, had exhausted both their reviews that too in the first over. Ashwin’s opening partner Shivam Singh used both the DRS options in a valiant attempt to overturn two legitimate calls made by Venkatesan Krithika for a wide. With the new leg-side wide rule in place, Shivam was guilty of moving across which the umpire noticed and called it a fair delivery. But Shivam in consultation with Ashwin took DRS in the hope that it would be ruled a wide and ended up losing both the reviews.
R Ashwin’s retirement after the third Test during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy came in as a bit of a surprise at the time. The off-spinner after bowling well in the Adelaide Test on a wicket that was not conducive for spinners was axed from the Gabba Test at the end of which he called it a day. With 537 wickets to his name when asked if he would have liked to have a farewell Test for his retirement he responded by saying, “Where is the place?”
“I want to play more cricket. Where is the place? Obviously not in the Indian dressing room but from somewhere else. I want to be honest with the game. Imagine if I want to play the farewell Test but I do not deserve a place. Imagine, I am only in the team because it is my farewell Test. I don’t want that. I felt there was more strength in my cricket. I could have played more but it is always better to finish when people ask ‘why’ and not ‘why not’,” Ashwin said on Ash ki Bath.
“What difference will this make if I came out with the ball and people are clapping? How long will people talk about it? When social media was not there, people talked about it and forgot after one week. There is no need for a farewell. The game has given us a lot and we have played with a lot of happiness.” Ashwin added.
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