‘Australia series could become my last’: Ravichandran Ashwin on struggles

Ravichandran Ashwin spoke about issues he was facing with his knee, forcing him to change his bowling action.

“When I came back from Bangladesh, I told my wife that the Australia series could become my last series. I used to have some knee issues. I told I am going to change my action because it really got a lot of momentum and with that when I was landing, my knee was buckling a little bit. I hadn’t done enough workload because of the T20 World Cup but I was not just not happy with the way the ball was coming, it was just scrambling a little bit here,” Ravichandran Ashwin told TheIndianExpress.

“By the second Test (in Bangladesh) it started to pain. It was really swelling up. So just thinking okay, how do I do this? Because I bowled really well for three-four years, right? To change my action, it’s got to be the most stupid and ridiculous thing to do. So I came back and said, listen, there’s a lot of load on the knee, it’s time to change and I’m going to go back to my action that used to bowl in 2013-14,” he revealed.

When asked if he wanted to play in the WTC 2023 Final, Ravichandran Ashwin termed it a difficult question. Ashwin said that he would have loved to play as he played a part in helping Team India to reach the WTC 2023 Final. Ravichandran Ashwin pointed out that in the WTC 2021 Final also, he took four wickets.

Updated: 16 Jun 2023, 04:40 PM IST