Xtra Time Web Desk: Team India and Delhi Capitals’ ace off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has clarified that he has nothing personal with England white ball captain Eoin Morgan. Ashwin was reacting to the incident involving himself with Kolkata Knight Riders’ captain and Tim Southee as all three were involved in a heated exchange during a recent IPL 2021 match involving the two teams.
During the match between Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders, Ashwin tried to take a run after a throw ricocheted off his batting partner Rishabh Pant. The action from the Indian spinner did not go down well with KKR captain. The moment Tim Southee sent back Ashwin, he was said something by the KKR bowler which infuriated Ashwin.
KKR captain Morgan too had an altercation with Ashwin in the middle calling the Indian a “disgrace” and accusing him of not adhering to the ‘Spirit of Cricket’ even supposing MCC guidelines permit scoring of runs after the rebound from a batsman’s physique.
“Look, I think it’s definitely not a personal battle or one on one battle and I wouldn’t deem it like that at all. People who want attention may be taking it that way, but I am not looking at it that way at all,” Ashwin said to media.
He went on to add, “…I was not the one who was aware that it had hit Rishabh (Pant). So I just felt like they had already decided they were going to have a go, and that is one of the reasons why I said the words that were used were not in the right direction and not in the right space.”
“I think we need to understand that culturally everybody is different right, the way people are taught to play cricket in England and in India, the way one thinks is completely different,” Ashwin stated.
“I wouldn’t say that there is anybody that is wrong here. It is just that the way the game was played in 1940s, cannot be the same way that you want somebody else to apply it (now),” he stated.