An interview provided by Ravichandran Ashwin to cricket journalist Sidharth Monga is grabbing headlines as the cricketer opened about the trauma he went through all these years as a cricketer. He talked about the phase where he thought of announcing retirement from the game and also about the remark of then coach Ravi Sashtri which “absolutely crushed” him. On reading the whole interview, leading Tamil actor Siddharth came up with a tweet making a statement about how he the board chose KL Rahul over him as the vice captain of the team.
After Rohit Sharma got ruled out of the Test series due to injury, it was rumoured that the team is going to compete the series without a vice captain. On 18th of December, BCCI announced that KL Rahul has been appointed as a vice captain for the team. “KL Rahul named vice-captain of Test team for South Africa series. KL Rahul replaces Rohit Sharma as vice-captain, who was ruled out of the Test series owing to a hamstring injury” BCCI said in their post.
NEWS – KL Rahul named vice-captain of Test team for South Africa series.
KL Rahul replaces Rohit Sharma as vice-captain, who was ruled out of the Test series owing to a hamstring injury.
More details here – https://t.co/7dHbFf74hG #SAvIND | @klrahul11 pic.twitter.com/6pQPTns9C7
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 18, 2021
Many fans expressed their displeasure over the decision made by the BCCI as they expected Ashwin to be named as team India’s vice captain. “Why Ashwin is not considered for test Vice captaincy? He should have been the one even before Rohit” a cricket follower said whereas another one came up with a tweet saying “Don’t know why selectors don’t give the vice captaincy to Ashwin.!He absolutely deserve with his performance.!And no Jadeja also it means he will play all the matches.!”
Why Ashwin is not considered for test Vice captaincy?
He should have been the one even before Rohit #SAvIND #TeamIndia— நந்தினி ✩✩ 🎀 🅽🅰🅽🅳🅷🅸🅽🅸 🎀 ✩✩ (@nandhinithinks) December 18, 2021
Don’t know why selectors don’t give the vice captaincy to Ashwin.!He absolutely deserve with his performance.!And no Jadeja also it means he will play all the matches.!
— Deep Point (@ittzz_spidey) December 18, 2021
Heard KL Rahul is about to become the Test Vice-captain of India in the absence of Rohit Sharma? Why not Ashwin? He has got experience and deserves it more thn anyone.
— Shivani Shukla (@iShivani_Shukla) December 15, 2021
Why don’t BCCI and selectors give vice-captaincy to Ravi Ashwin whenever our main vice-captain/captain aren’t available
— Neelabh (@CricNeelabh) December 18, 2021
Now, after reading the recent interview of Tamil nadu based off spinner, actor Siddharth came with a tweet wishing Ash, a very best for the upcoming South Africa series. The actor said that Ashwin is not “vice” but a deserving “Vayasu” captain. “#Legend for a reason. You go Ashhh! @ashwinravi99 On point as always…great read. ATB for the big series. Break them records. You have no vice, but you are our deserving vayasu captain machi” tweet of Siddharth read.
#Legend for a reason.
You go Ashhh! @ashwinravi99
On point as always…great read.
ATB for the big series. Break them records.
You have no vice, but you are our deserving vayasu captain machi 🥲#INDvSA https://t.co/A1X70EdZBa
— Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) December 22, 2021
