“She Thought I Had A Man Crush On…”: Ravichandran Ashwin Reveals Wife Prithi’s ‘Concern’

Ravichandran Ashwin shouldn’t be solely a spin nice. But he’s a thinker. A strategist. A motivator. In his early days. The younger Ashwin was one bowlers who by no means shied away from attempting out variations in his bowling. a lot in order that even the good MS Dhoni needed to ask him to answer extra on his inventory supply. Ashwin went on to develop into one of many biggest spinners within the historical past of Indian cricket. The quantity of analysis that he did in decoding a batter’s method is insane. 

In reality, this one time when Ashwin was attempting to know the nuances of Steve Smtih’s batting method, he acquired so concerned, that his spouse Prithi was involved. The former India star, who retired lately, mentioned that Prithi would not have been faulted for pondering he had a ‘man crush’ on Steve Smith.

“I got him out him in Australia. I don’t know how many times I watched Steve Smith bat, I can’t even remember. My wife was in the room, my kids were in the room. I don’t think I saw them properly at all for a few days. Like I kept zooming in on something, my wife watched from behind and said ‘what the hell are you watching? Why you going so close on Steve Smith? Do you have like a…’. I think she was concerned and rightly so. I wouldn’t have faulted her if she thought I had a man crush on him,” Ashwin mentioned on the AWS AI Conclave 2025 in Bengaluru.

“I went so close. I was actually zooming in on his hands. I genuinely needed more people or more data or more intervention to help me out with that but I didn’t have it.”

Former India all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin lately took a dig at England’s poor batting efficiency within the T20I collection and even in contrast it to driving in Bengaluru’s site visitors.

Ashwin acknowledged that the 2022 T20 World Cup champions want to know the pitch situations somewhat than at all times enjoying their attacking recreation.

“England has played incomplete cricket. They made a series of mistakes. When you play in India, you can’t play in one tempo. If you drive in Bengaluru traffic, you can’t always be in the fourth gear. It’s the same logic here. Sometimes, you can’t even go to the fourth gear in Bengaluru (laughs),” Ashwin mentioned on his YouTube channel.