The veteran Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who is still uncertain when the side will get to travel abroad next due to the COVID-19 lockdown, said the best days of his cricketing career are still ahead during an interaction with former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar.
During the chat on ESPNCricinfo, Ashwin said, “We don’t know when we will get back to cricket and when we will travel abroad but I feel my best days are still lying ahead.”
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Ashwin holds the records of reached the mark of 250, 300, and 350 (joint-fastest) Test wickets the fastest, but in recent times, he has received a lot of fo criticism for not picking enough wickets abroad in South Africa, England, and Australia. In his interaction with Manjrekar, Ashwin expressed his wish to make himself much more useful wherever he plays and stressed on luck playing a factor.
The veteran spinner asserted, “I would like to achieve the same wherever I go. And increasingly the number of games that I have played in England, I have realized that for a spinner to be bowling in alien conditions and repeat the same numbers, you need to be bowling in all the possible right times in the game. Secondly, you need a little bit of luck.”
Ashwin was supposed to play for Delhi Capitals in the 13th edition of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) which has now been postponed indefinitely due to the lockdown. The 33-year-old has so far played 71 Tests, 111 ODIs, and 46 T20Is in which he has scalped 365, 150, and 52 wickets respectively.
Currently, India is going through a nationwide lockdown. Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive patients in India went past 28100 with almost 890 people losing their lives on Saturday, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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The entire world is slowly moving towards a lockdown due to the scare of the ever-escalating situation concerning the World Health Organisation-recognized pandemic that is the Coronavirus. Everything- schools, colleges, airports, railway stations, gyms, sporting events, movies, offices- have been put under lockdown as the world continues to self-isolate in order to control the pandemic.
