Ravichandran Ashwin retires from international cricket

[putrevus]

4 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Looked really good in last RSA tour on those horrible pitches, vintage Kohli. Should have continued his momentum by playing Eng series at home, just a month later IIRC. 

Agreed plus him not playing FC when he had chance is also hurting him big time. 

 

Sachin played FC cricket even in last season.If he wanted to play test cricket , he should have gone and did the hard yards on his batting.

 

Nets won't help, he should have known that by now .

Edited December 19, 2024 by putrevus

[Lord]

23 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Among post 2010 mainstays, think only Dhoni, Ashwin, Saha, Vijay, Dhawan have officially retired.

 

Umesh, Ishant, Pujara, Rahane and @Lord's favorite Bhuvi haven't, right? 

 

I'm a mod. Don't try such stunts

[Majestic]

India all time test XI :-

 

Gavaskar

Sehwag

Dravid

Tendulkar

kohli

Pant(wkt)

Jadeja

kapil

Ashwin

Zak

Bumrah

[ash]

9 hours ago, Stan AF said:

 

Video shows why SENA five for argument is overrated. Look at some of the scorecards here. Example Adelaide 2018, 4 wickets down and he had taken 3 wickets. A overseas spinner taking the top three wickets in Australia, bowling with a relatively new ball !! 
 

Also the quality of wickets. Smith, Marnus, Rogers, Watson, Warner, Head, Khwaja..  Basically all the top Aussie batters who played in the last decade. 
 

And.. very few were slogs or rash shots. Most wickets were Ashwin beating them with Flight and Dip and earning the wicket. Beautiful to watch.. 

Edited December 19, 2024 by ash

[Sandz]

4 hours ago, Majestic said:

India all time test XI :-

 

Gavaskar

Sehwag

Dravid

Tendulkar

kohli

Pant(wkt)

Jadeja

kapil

Ashwin

Zak

Bumrah

Hmmm. Lax over Kohli for me, Kohli have dropped out of the all time XI due to tailenderisque performance over the last 5 friggin years. 
 

He will soon be fighting out with the likes of Gundappa and Mohinder Amarnath for a spot in the all time XI.

[ash]

4 hours ago, Majestic said:

India all time test XI :-

 

Gavaskar

Sehwag

Dravid

Tendulkar

kohli

Pant(wkt)

Jadeja

kapil

Ashwin

Zak

Bumrah

Indian conditions

 

Gavaskar

Sehwag

Dravid

Sachin

VVS

Pant

Jadeja

Ashwin

Kumble

Zak

Bumrah

 

Overseas

 

Gavaskar

Sehwag

Dravid

Sachin

VVS

Kohli

Pant

Ashwin

Zak

Bumrah

Srinath

 

Atleast with an overseas batting lineup like this, Ashwin need not worry that he will be dropped for his batting. 

[vvvslaxman]

53 minutes ago, ash said:

Video shows why SENA five for argument is overrated. Look at some of the scorecards here. Example Adelaide 2018, 4 wickets down and he had taken 3 wickets. A overseas spinner taking the top three wickets in Australia, bowling with a relatively new ball !! 
 

Also the quality of wickets. Smith, Marnus, Rogers, Watson, Warner, Head, Khwaja..  Basically all the top Aussie batters who played in the last decade. 
 

And.. very few were slogs or rash shots. Most wickets were Ashwin beating them with Flight and Dip and earning the wicket. Beautiful to watch.. 

Pujara talks exactly about this . That "fifer" argument

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricket-videos/pujara-on-ashwin-dont-think-anyone-can-replace-him-as-an-offspinner-1465935

[Stan AF]

1 hour ago, ash said:

Video shows why SENA five for argument is overrated. Look at some of the scorecards here. Example Adelaide 2018, 4 wickets down and he had taken 3 wickets. A overseas spinner taking the top three wickets in Australia, bowling with a relatively new ball !! 
 

Also the quality of wickets. Smith, Marnus, Rogers, Watson, Warner, Head, Khwaja..  Basically all the top Aussie batters who played in the last decade. 
 

And.. very few were slogs or rash shots. Most wickets were Ashwin beating them with Flight and Dip and earning the wicket. Beautiful to watch.. 

He also took 7 wickets in the edgbaston test March in 2018 vs england.

 

Batters screwed it up by not making 200 runs in the 4th innings.

[The Hound]

 

 

[Gollum]

Next year onwards, a home test without Ashwin will feel so strange. 2 days have passed, this decision makes perfect sense and is good for Indian cricket, and everyone knows that the replacement (Washi/Kuldeep/Axar) will carve his own legacy. But still that lingering sadness, realization that it is over. 

[vvvslaxman]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

Next year onwards, a home test without Ashwin will feel so strange. 2 days have passed, this decision makes perfect sense and is good for Indian cricket, and everyone knows that the replacement (Washi/Kuldeep/Axar) will carve his own legacy. But still that lingering sadness, realization that it is over. 

This sentiment is echoed by most fans. That makes the timing of retirement correct. I am not sure i felt  the same when Kohli retired from  T20. Despite the legend in world T20 and T20 in general we had this sigh of relief more than anything else. It will be the same when he retires from other formats. Besides we are already used to him missing a lot of matches.

[Bigg Brother]

7 hours ago, The Hound said:

 

 

That is great compilation. Didn't know he picked so many in 2011-12 tour. Could have been more had Kohli played him at Adelaide 2014 over Karn Sharma. A brain-dead decision that nobody talks about. 

[vvvslaxman]

He is happy to deal with fans.

 

 

Edited December 20, 2024 by vvvslaxman

[vvvslaxman]

 

This is so strue. Star sports  morons have to learn there are other cricketers playing for India  besides Virat Kohli

[ungboysj]

Lovely wife 

[Ultimate_Game]

3 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

This sentiment is echoed by most fans. That makes the timing of retirement correct. I am not sure i felt  the same when Kohli retired from  T20. Despite the legend in world T20 and T20 in general we had this sigh of relief more than anything else. It will be the same when he retires from other formats. Besides we are already used to him missing a lot of matches.

 

There would be celebrations when deadwood Kohli retires. That'll mean an automatic upgrade for the team and the biggest panauti of Indian cricket would've finally moved on.

 

But that's wishful thinking as knowing the leech, he'll continue to stick around hanging on to other players' coattails.

[Lord]

 

[Gollum]

Harsha Bhogle recalls Ashwin’s kindness during a dark period in his life

 

Veteran broadcaster Harsha Bhogle also expressed his gratitude to Ashwin in a video he put up on his YouTube channel. In that video, Bhogle reminisced about an incident from 2016/17 when he was under fire for criticising Indian cricketers. It was a dark period in Bhogle’s illustrious career, as he was removed from the broadcast of many key games involving India.

At that time, Ashwin showed him a gesture of kindness, which Bhogle remembered with great gratitude and expressed in the video, where he applauded the generosity of a young Ashwin.

“I’m going to end this little tribute to you [Ashwin] with something that means a lot to me,” Bhogle said in his video. 

“In 2016-2017 I was going through a phase where people were questioning me a great deal, and you were still a very young person. You actually reached out to me. I think it might have been in a hotel room in Pune. You reached out to me and said do you want to sit down and have a conversation on the craft of spin bowling. 

“What you were trying to tell me without saying so in as many words was, ‘can I help you understand bowling so that you will become a better broadcaster?’, and that meant the world to me, Ashwin. 

“Because here’s a young man offering to help someone so vastly experienced at becoming better at his profession because you thought that person was under attack.”

Ashwin’s interest and support during a low period clearly meant a lot to him. In a video released by the BCCI on Ashwin, a visibly emotional Bhogle is seen hugging Ashwin right after the press conference where the latter announced his retirement. 

“That is why when I met you today when you were on your way to announcing your retirement, I was still hoping I could pull you back and say don’t, but your mind was made up,” Bhogle said. 

“That was the reason behind the hug that you did something when it meant a lot to me. It is beyond all the wickets, beyond all the runs beyond everything else. Well played [Ashwin]. You are an ornament to a game, and I wish you a lot lot more.”

 

What a great man Ash anna 

Recall those days when that oaf Amitabh and crook Dhoni forced Bhogle out of commentary. Bhogle may be a bad commentator but the reasons they used to remove him back then were BS, apparently because he was critical of some of our players on air. 

[Gollum]

Had Ashwin stayed till Sydney, people would be saying a useless senior is blocking Washi.

 

Now that he has made way, making TM's decision straightforward and also such a big opportunity for Washi, Bakwaskar questions why retire mid tour? 

 

 

[putrevus]

7 hours ago, Gollum said:

Had Ashwin stayed till Sydney, people would be saying a useless senior is blocking Washi.

 

Now that he has made way, making TM's decision straightforward and also such a big opportunity for Washi, Bakwaskar questions why retire mid tour? 

 

 

Spot on. Did Gavaskar question Dhoni's retirement from test midway thru the series.I don't recollect him saying much.Dhoni quit on a young team midway thru the series.

 

 

Ashwin did the right thing.They have another offspinner in the team .

Edited December 21, 2024 by putrevus