Ravichandran Ashwin Reveals A Bizarre Childhood Incident

India’s carrom-ball specialist Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed an incident when he was kidnapped by the opposition team. Ashwin has narrated a bizarre incident wherein he was picked up so that he could not contest in a match. This surely goes on to show that Ashwin was a great cricketer since his childhood and his opposition feared him the way they do now.

Although Ashwin is away from the limited-overs cricket for Team India, he remains to be a crucial part of the Test squad. His bowling, particularly in the sub-continent, has helped India win a lot of games. He has been one of the key players who have helped India maintain the highest of standards in Test cricket.

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Ravichandran Ashwin Reveals Chilling Childhood Incident:

Narrating a story in the first episode of Cricbuzz’s Spicy Pitch, Ashwin revealed how he was once tricked and abducted before a tennis ball final.

“My friend had the habit of getting me to play tennis ball tournaments, my dad clearly didn’t like it. He doesn’t appreciate me playing on the roads as well. So one of those days we were supposed to play a final and we have this culture of sort of people priding themselves on winning a competition like that. As I was about to leave, there were four or five guys who came in Royal Enfields – properly muscular and big,” Ashwin revealed.

Ashwin revealed that he was rather fascinated by the initial stage of the incident as he thought the opposition have arranged a pick up for him.

However, things were to get worse later.

“They picked me up and said come we’ve got to go. I asked ‘who?’ and they said ‘you’re playing the match here, right? We’ve come to pick you up. I was like wow they’ve arranged for a pick-up, and it feels great. I mean Royal Enfield… what happened is I sat behind one person and another person sat right behind me, as if I was going to get off and go. I was properly sandwiched between both of them,” Ashwin revealed.

Ashwin went on to reveal how the abductors gave him something to eat and when he insisted on playing the game, they threatened him to chop his fingers.

“I must’ve been about 14 or 15. They took me to a posh tea stall. A tea shop is a big culture thing in Chennai. Next to all the grounds, there is a tea shop which has got those benches and all that. They made me sit there, ordered bajjis and vadas and all that, and said ‘have, have, don’t be afraid, we’re here to help you out’. It was around 3:30-4:00 PM and I said the match is going to start, let’s go. So they said, ‘no, no, we’re actually from the opposition, we wanted to stop you from playing. If you go and play we’ll make sure your fingers are not there,” Ashwin added.

Ashwin stayed with them for another hour or so before he asked the members of the opposition team to drop him home as his father is going to return from work. He also promised them that he isn’t going to play the final but wants to return home.

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