Ravichandran Ashwin has intense preparations for a 10-Test series for the country, starting with a home series against Bangladesh. But as he reflects through the dusks of his career, with more than five hundred Test wickets to his name, the 37 year old offspinner is quite certain that somebody in the future is going to come back and do better than him.
Speaking on adaptation in a discussion with senior cricket journalist Vimal Kumar on his YouTube channel, Ashwin remarked that he is taking the story of Indian spin bowling ahead from Kumble and Singh’s times.
“I am lucky”. What bhai did and Harbhajan did as a legacy. I have lived, comparable to what Anil bhai and cricketers like Harbhajan left behind. Whatever I am doing now is because of them, and what I am doing is a part of the process, said Ashwin in a deep sense, who has 516 tests after playing 100 tests.
Again speaking of the changing times, Ravichandran Ashwin gave the instance of the IPL.
“When people say that they (cricketers) are making so much in the IPL, this and that, mai soch kar hasta hu. Is baat ab virtually kya sambhava hai ki agar 2040 mein IPL hota hai, to usmein salary wahin rahegi toh kya hoga?” he asked.
“It’s not as self-destructive as that. The world will stride forward,” said Ashwin, the current number one Test all-rounder in the ICC charts who has five Test centuries to his credit.
“I will leave somewhere, and someone else will move forward. It’s like a 400m relay race….sone will run 100m and someone else further 100m. So it is an evolution and people will be better. And I am hundred percent sure that someone better or even more amazing than me will come.”
