Xtra Time Web Desk: Team India’s ace off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has said competition always brings out the best in him and the day he feels he has lost that urge to improve his craft, he will quit the sport. Ashwin is regarded as a thinking cricketer who always strives to explore something new, something extra in his game and that attitude has paid rich dividends for him throughout his career.
“The beauty about Test cricket is you are always aspiring to be perfect but you can settle for excellence, so that”s pretty much I think I do,” Ashwin was quoted as saying by the ICC ahead of the ongoing World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand here.
“I think whatever I have achieved so far in my career is because of that attitude, did not settle for anything, constantly looking to improve.
“I maintained that if I don”t like doing different things and if I lose the patience to do something new or get satisfied then I might not play the sport anymore,” he said.
The 34-year-old from Chennai, who has captured 409 Test wickets so far, said that he doesn”t enjoy controversy but if poked he doesn”t hesitate to give it back on the field with his performance.
“It”s not like that I enjoy controversy but I enjoy a fight and that pretty much sums up why I am here,” he said.
“I don”t celebrate victories as much as I ideally should because for me victory is an incident and is coincidental to planning and practice. I sit and think about what can be better,” Ashwin said.