‘I should have never become a bowler… teammates were friends, now colleagues’: R Ashwin
DAYS AFTER he was dropped from the World Test Championship final that India lost to Australia, R Ashwin has said he would regret becoming a bowler instead of a batsman.
In an interview with The Indian Express, he also talked about the loneliness of the modern-day cricketer where “teammates aren’t friends but colleagues”, how he was “traumatised” by his frequent sacking in the past, and how leadership chances eluded him because people were actively “working against” him by labelling him as an “overthinker”.
“This is a true story… One day, I was watching the India-Sri Lanka game and India’s bowling was in tatters. My favourite was Sachin Tendulkar, and whatever runs he used to make, we used to leak those runs with the ball. I used to think one day, I must be a bowler. Can’t I be better t...