Ravichandran Ashwin retires from international cricket

[Gnske]

Reminder Spark is on his cycle and has sunk to Harsh.ag levels of moderating

Don't listen to his warnings.

 

[Molehill]

I want to know what the rules are on Retirement Threads....

 

[Coronis]

But yeah. Great career. When Lyon also retires, spin bowling will again have a big hole to fill at the international level.

 

[Spark]

I want to know what the rules are on Retirement Threads....

Basically if you don't have nice things to say about the player, keep your thoughts to yourself (and especially don't bait other posters like @GirthQuake just did). We used to have big problems with retirement threads devolving into shitfights.

 

[Shri]

its ok some things are irresistible

i enjoyed shitting on clouderson when he retired

 

[Gnske]

its ok some things are irresistible

i enjoyed shitting on clouderson when he retired

Let's look at whats in front of us realistically, Anderson retired the same way John Lennon retired

 

[Gnske]

I want to know what the rules are on Retirement Threads....

If you look at the official rules list, there's nothing there.

Pulling it out of his arse. Be as disrespectful as you want until someone actually provides written documentation that isn't just a passing comment on a thread from 5 years ago.

 

[Shri]

 

[Shri]

chad ashwin once decided to wear long sleeves and bowl with sunil narine's action in an international match. he explained later saying a lot of bowlers get away with it so i wanted to see what i could get out of chucking pretty much lmao

 

[sayon basak]

This is sad.



Will he take 700 wickets tho?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ash is going to be missed.

I’ll write a more detailed post later about him and his impact on the game

 

[Molehill]

Let's look at whats in front of us realistically, Anderson retired the same way John Lennon retired

Shot by a bloke carrying Catcher in the Rye???

 

[subshakerz]

Nice commemoration from Jarrod

 

[Prince EWS]

This is pretty funny if for no other reason than so many Ashwin fans taking the piss out of Swann for this for years.

But still, what a bowler.

And don't forget, he #canbat.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ashwin fans taking the piss out of Swann for this for years.

Wait is this a thing? I thought it was mostly Australians

 

[Prince EWS]

Wait is this a thing? I thought it was mostly Australians

Noone loves Ashwin more than Australians obviously.

 

[shortpitched713]

A beast of a bowler, whose legacy will grow in the coming years.

Congrats to the man on an ATG career!

 

[trundler]

I really don't think India will find a replacement for him soon, if at all. Other spinners have benefitted massively from his presence and he's made bowling spin in India look a lot easier than it is, outside of the odd minefield. Arguably the greatest match winner at home since Bradman.

 

[Sunil1z]

I am massively angry with the direction of Indian Cricket in last few months .
Ashwin retires after 1 bad home series whereas Rohit and Kohli are still in the team after doing nothing for 5 years .

Number of MoS awards in Test
Ashwin: 11( World record )
Kohli: 3
Rohit :1
Guess which player had to retire after 1 bad series.

 

[PaulLennon]

I really don't think India will find a replacement for him soon, if at all. Other spinners have benefitted massively from his presence and he's made bowling spin in India look a lot easier than it is, outside of the odd minefield. Arguably the greatest match winner at home since Bradman.

make flatter pitches and win through kuldeep's accuracy/variations and bumrah's reverse as well as jaiswal, gill, pant putting up massive scores.

sort of like the mid 2000s-early 2010s where ind did similar with kumble and zaheer.