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If Mohammad Nawaz’s ball had not gone wide, then I would have retired, shocking statement of Ashwin

Sudev Haldar
2 years ago

Ravichandran Ashwin has given a big reaction to the wide ball of Mohammad Nawaz in the match against Pakistan. He has said that if that ball had not gone wide. He would have gone straight to the dressing room and announced his retirement.

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In fact, when the Indian team needed two runs off the last two balls, Dinesh Karthik was stumped. Now India needed two runs to win off a ball and Ravichandran Ashwin was at the crease. Ashwin showed a lot of cleverness and did not tamper with the ball going in the direction of the leg side. And the ball went wide. After this, he gave the team victory by hitting a four on the last ball.

Had the ball hit my pads, I would have retired: Ashwin

The way Ravichandran Ashwin left Nawaz’s ball and got him wide, he is being praised a lot because due to this the match came to a level and the pressure on the Indian team was removed. During a conversation with Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Ashwin reacted to that wide ball. They said,

If Nawaz’s ball had turned and hit my pads, I would have gone straight to the dressing room and wrote on Twitter ‘Thank you so much, I had a wonderful cricketing career and thank you all.’

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Ravichandran Ashwin had earlier told on his YouTube channel what was going on in his mind during that last ball. During a conversation on his YouTube channel, he said,

‘As soon as I saw the ball going to the leg side. I decided to leave it and it went wide. As soon as I got runs from wides, I was quite relaxed.