A very odd turn by cricket’s reigning master of spin

Ashwin has worked constantly on various components of bowling, the run-up, its angle, stride length, the pace of arm, position of wrist, and speed variations.

In the middle of the tributes and praise being showered upon Ravichandran Ashwin, it appears to be a bit churlish to ask, but why now? In the middle of a series? Let’s keep that for later. After paying due salutes to a cricketer whose India career began as a white-ball bowler with a bagful of tricks, but finished as a Test giant. You’d have heard it by now, but this is Ashwin as of today: India’s second-highest Test wicket-taker after

No matter where he was playing – for which team, in which match -- Ashwin was always game. Was is an incorrect verb, because we will still see Ashwin play – no doubt in the IPL for CSK and maybe for his TNPL team, the Dindigul Dragons. (PTI)