Delhi: Indian team’s veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is celebrating his 38th birthday today. He was born on 17 September 1986 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. On this special day, Ashwin is receiving many good wishes from the cricket world. He is among the best bowlers in the world. Ashwin is known for his devastating ‘spin’ bowling and brilliant batting in the lower order.
This right-arm bowler has made and broken many big records in international cricket. However, today we will look at 6 things about Ashwin that fans may not have heard about him. See:
- Ravichandran Ashwin is an engineer from Information Technology branch and was called Dada in college.
- Ravi Ashwin married his childhood friend Preeti Narayan on November 13, 2011.
- When Ashwin was a student of class 9, he had to stay away from cricket for 1 year due to a muscle infection. During this time, he could not even go to school for 2 months.
- Ashwin started his career as a fast bowler and a batsman. He has even played for India as a batsman in Under-17 cricket.
- Ashwin did not take any coaching in cricket till the age of 10, but during Under-10 and Under-12 cricket, he got a lot of help from the school coach.
- Ashwin is very fond of movies, whenever he is in Chennai, he does not forget to go to Satyam Cinema with his father to watch a movie.
