The veteran Indian off-spinner, Ravi Ashwin and his wife Prithi Ashwin celebrated their ninth marriage anniversary on Friday. The couple had got hitched on November 13 in 2011. On their special day, Ashwin’s wife shared a few pictures featuring the Indian stalwart and their two lovely daughters. One of the light-hearted pictures showed Prithi grabbing Ashwin’s throat with the off-spinner’s mouth wide open.
The couple is currently in Sydney where they are going through the compulsory quarantine period ahead of the series against Australia gets underway. Captioning the pictures on Instagram, Prithi Ashwin wrote: “Happy 9 years to us. What can be more romantic than being quarantined together and there’s no way to escape? @rashwin99”.
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Ashwin also reposted one of the pictures on his Instagram account and captioned them as: “Time flies!! So did the last 9 years. @prithinarayanan #weddinganniversary”.
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Ashwin has not been picked in India’s limited-overs squad but is an integral part of the Test squad. The first match of the four-match Test series is scheduled to be played under floodlights, starting December 17 in Adelaide. The second match is the Boxing Day Test and will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from December 26-30.
The third Test will begin on January 7 in Sydney while the fourth and the final test will start on January 15 in Brisbane.
Team India Test squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj.
