T20 World Cup: Virat Kohli’s Team India is gearing up for their first warm-up game ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 against England on October 18. India’s premier Test spinner R Ashwin, who made comeback into the T20 side for the first time since 2017, wore the new T20I jersey for the first time on Sunday. The off-spinner got emotional and pend down a post with the photo himself wearing the new kit.
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Ashwin posted a photo on his Instagram account with his daughter photobombing him in the background. “When your daughter says ‘I have never seen you in this jersey appa’ can’t leave her out of the picture. Can you ? @prithinarayanan,” R Ashwin wrote in the caption.
India will open its campaign in the upcoming T20 World Cup against Pakistan on October 24 at the Dubai International Stadium. Ashwin had last played a T20I for the Men in Blue in 2017, but the selectors named him in the squad looking at his experience and performance in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
T20 World Cup: R Ashwin dons Team India’s T20 jersey first time since 2017, pens down the emotional post – Check out
2017: I wrote this quote down a million times in my diary before putting this up on the wall! Quotes that we read and admire have more power when we internalise them and apply in life.
Happiness and gratitude are the only 2 words that define me now.🙏 #t20worldcup2021 pic.twitter.com/O0L3y6OBLl
— Mask up and take your vaccine🙏🙏🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) September 8, 2021
“Yes, definitely. The one thing Ashwin has improved on is his bowling with courage. You have seen in the IPL over the last two years that he has bowled the difficult overs against the biggest hitters. He has not been shy to put the ball in the right areas, Ashwin has believed in his skillset. And we felt the way he was bowling with variations, he is a guy who has played a lot of international cricket,” said Kohli during a Captain’s Call organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) ahead of the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup.
“So, hence Ashwin has been rewarded for reviving his white-ball skills altogether. He was a regular feature for us back in the day but he fell off, finger spinners with accuracy have come back into the game. So we also need to evolve as a team,” he added.
T20 World Cup: Ravichandran Ashwin – Ashwin last played a T20I in July 2017 against the West Indies. He captained the Punjab team in the IPL in the 2018 and 2019 seasons, bagging 10 and 15 wickets respectively. Ashwin shifted base to Delhi Capitals in 2020 and picked up 13 wickets at an average of 30.07 and an economy of 7.66 in his first season for the side. He featured in five of the eight matches that the Capitals played in 2021, and managed a solitary wicket while he had an economy of 7.73.
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| Bowling | Mat | Balls | Runs | WKTS | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4W | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 159 | 3,344 | 3,848 | 139 | 4/34 | 27.68 | 6.90 | 24.05 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5 | 114 | 147 | 1 | 1/47 | 147.00 | 7.73 | 114.00 | 0 | 0 |
T20 World Cup: R Ashwin dons Team India’s T20 jersey first time since 2017, pens down the emotional post – Check out
India’s squad for ICC T20 World Cup 2021
Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Shami
