Ravichandran Ashwin is ready to play his one hundredth Test in Dharamsala on March 7 (Thursday). He has carried out exceptionally effectively, like he does in each sequence for India and in addition accomplished 500 wickets in the format throughout the Rajkot (third) Test. It was a momentous event for him to achieve the huge landmark on the second day of the match. But issues turned bitter quickly as he needed to leave the Test match the similar night and fly again house Chennai because of household emergency.
His spouse Prithi Ashwin has recalled the tough time for the household. The incident occurred a while after Ashwin accomplished the profession milestone and his daughters Akhira and Aadhya had witnessed it after getting back from college. They have been receiving a variety of congratulatory messages and calls and that’s when, Ashwin’s mom collapsed. However, at the time, the household determined to not inform Ashwin of the incident and it was solely after physician requested them to do, they known as up the cricketer.
“It was then that I heard a sudden scream from aunty as she collapsed, and in no time we were at the hospital,” Prithi stated. “At that point, we had decided not to tell Ashwin because there wasn’t good flight connectivity between Chennai and Rajkot,” Prithi stated whereas talking to Indian Express. Cheteshwar Pujara who stays in Rajkot additionally got here to the rescue and shortly the Indian crew administration additionally made certain all the preparations have been performed for Ashwin to achieve house in time.
“So I dialled Cheteshwar Pujara and his family were of great help,” she stated. “And as soon as we discovered a approach out, I known as up Ashwin as a result of after the scans, the physician steered it was higher to have her son round. Over the telephone, he sounded so damaged and hung up. It took one other 20-25 minutes to course of what I informed him and for him to name again. And because of Rohit (Sharma), Rahul bhai (Dravid) and the others in the crew and the BCCI — who adopted up all the approach until he reached here — he bought here late at evening.
“It was a very emotional moment for him to see his mom in the ICU. And after she stabilised, we asked him to rejoin the team. Given his personality, he would never leave a game like that. And he would have an extreme amount of guilt if he didn’t win the game for his team,” she added. However, Ashwin rejoined the crew on the fourth day and bowled in the second innings serving to India win the recreation by an enormous margin of 434 runs.
