Ravichandran Ashwin

I have a soft spot for athletes who win with the mind rather than brute force, and Ravichandran Ashwin fits that perfectly. An off-spin bowler from Chennai, he doesn't overpower batters so much as outthink them, setting traps with subtle variation. Add a useful lower-order bat and you get a genuinely complete cricketer. Being part of India's 2011 World Cup squad only confirms he delivered when an entire cricket-mad nation was watching. As someone who appreciates baseball's chess-match pitching, I find his craft mesmerizing. He's the kind of player whose intelligence is more thrilling than any radar-gun number.

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Name (English)

Ravichandran Ashwin

Name (Japanese)

ラヴィチャンドラン・アシュウィン

Reading

らゔぃちゃんどらん・あしゅうぃん

Born

September 17, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Chennai, Chennai district, India

Occupation

cricketer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

• Official sitehttp://ashwinravi.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rashwin99/
• Xhttps://x.com/ashwinravi99
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravichandran%20Ashwin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3007571

Tags

• Chennai district
• cricketer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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