“R Ashwin Cut Off My Calls, That’s The Respect We Get”: Ex India Star Slams Veteran Spinner

Veteran India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is on the cusp of his a hundredth Test. With 99 matches within the India whites to his identify, Ashwin will function within the longest format of the sport for the a hundredth time because the nationwide crew takes on England within the fifth match of the sequence in Dharamsala, beginning Thursday. As your complete cricketing fraternity goes ga-ga over Ashwin’s second of historical past, former India spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan is not pleased with the best way he has been handled by the veteran spinner.

Taking to social media, Sivaramakrishnan claimed that Ashwin disconnected his calls and did not even reply to his congratulatory messages on the a hundredth Test milestone.

“Tried calling him a few times to wish him for his 100th Test. Just cut off my call. Sent him a message, no reply. That’s the respect we former cricketers get,” the previous India spinner wrote on X (previously Twitter).

Tried calling him a couple of instances to want him for his a hundredth Test. Just minimize off my name. Sent him a message, no reply. Thats the respect we former cricketers get

— Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (@LaxmanSivarama1) March 6, 2024

Sivaramakrishnan additionally issued a clarification as an individual on social media accused him of disrespecting Ashwin.

This is a technical commentary and never criticism, disrespect . This was with good intention. You individuals suppose providing ideas is an insult or crime. God prevent. I’ve been linked with 43 years of cricket expertise. So i do have some information of the sport.

— Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (@LaxmanSivarama1) March 6, 2024

India and England will sq. off within the fifth and remaining Test of the sequence in Dharamshala from Thursday, which will probably be Ashwin’s a hundredth Test as nicely. In 99 Tests to this point, Ashwin has taken 507 wickets at a median of 23.91, together with 35 five-wicket hauls, with the perfect bowling figures of seven/59.

Combine it along with his tally of three,309 runs in 140 innings at a median of 26.14, with 5 centuries and 14 fifties and he is without doubt one of the most profitable all-rounders of the fashionable period.

With ANI inputs