The Border Gavaskar Trophy 2023 is around the corner, and the excitement among fans and players can be clearly seen on social media platforms. India’s star spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, known for his blunt responses, recently took to Twitter to share a picture of a funny edited bio which shows him in a new role ahead of the BGT 2023.
India will take on Australia in the inaugural match of BGT 2023 at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur from Thursday, February 9. Notably, it is a crucial four-match test series for India as on it depends their World Test Championship 2023 final qualifying hopes. The hosts need to win the leg either 3-0 or 4-0 to make it to the summit clash.
The Aussies have already started preparing for the challenge and were spotted training with a hired rookie spinner Mahesh Pithiya. The main purpose of the touring side behind roping in Pithiya is to get ready to tackle Ashwin in the upcoming Test matches. But despite all these efforts, it wouldn’t be easy for the Australian side to face a quality spinner like Ashwin in Indian conditions.
While many former cricketers reacted on Australia training with duplicate Ashwin, the 36-year-old refrained from speaking about it. However, amid all this, Ashwin posted a picture on Twitter of a funny edited bio of himself that showed him as both an off-spinner and leg-spinner. He captioned the image: “My morning coffee came with this and I wonder who has done this.”
My morning coffee came with this and I wonder who has done this. pic.twitter.com/TAamDMcLVH
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) February 5, 2023
Fans soon after Ashwin’s post flooded social media with jokes and memes. Some even called it the Tamil Nadu cricketer’s new plan to surprise Australia after he saw them train with Pithiya.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘢𝘺 1 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳-𝘎𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢𝘳 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) February 5, 2023
won’t be suprised if he actually does that in middle of his spell.
— Tushar (@TusharNagar013) February 4, 2023
Anna , question marks are for the batsmen? You have been asking tough questions
— Narendra Patil (@Narendra_IRTS) February 5, 2023
Off spin(5-6 variation), leg spin, bhajji, Kedar Jadhav, Sunil narain. Ash anna is like liquid, can mold in any shape easily. pic.twitter.com/rwRCXNwXc4
— Rohit.Bishnoi (@The_kafir_boy_2) February 5, 2023
Did they forget you can play a mean game of carrom too? And why just coffee? No kangaroos for breakfast yet? #BGT2023 #Ash1Aussies0
— Ruchir Mishra (@docruchir) February 5, 2023
Ashwin to aus team pic.twitter.com/b31PBXOcY0
— omk (@iblvzz) February 5, 2023
Australia practicing Ashwin duplicate. What if Ashwin bowls leg spinners.
Ash may do anything to give nightmares to Aussies— Sankaran Baskar (@SankaranBaskar) February 5, 2023
Aussies searching now similar Ash like bowling style like bowler who can bowl leg break , Mind game started #BGT2023
— NeatObserver (@NeatObserver) February 5, 2023
Anna, why only right arm? How about two more variations with left arm
In fact why only arm, 4 more variations with legs…what say
— PrasadS (@ThersNoSpoon) February 5, 2023
Conspiracy knows that your tricks are too hard to dissect.
— Arjun (@LifeIsAnElation) February 5, 2023
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