'I can't take it anymore. I hate that': Ashwin breaks silence on the tweet after last WTC

 A fortnight has passed since Ravichandran Ashwin made that heart-wrenching mistake in the final of the World Test Championship against Australia at The Oval. Despite being India's top wicket-taker and the No. 1 ICC Test bowler in the second WTC cycle, Ashwin was dropped to make way for an additional seamer, a move that was widely criticized and later After India's 209, Run Loss an important reason behind it. Ashwin later put out an explosive tweet after India's second successive defeat in the WTC final and later explained it as an act of "closure".

Ashwin Tweet

“Congratulations Australia on winning this #WTCFinal and closing out this cycle of test cricket. It is disappointing to end up on the wrong side of things, nevertheless, it was a great effort over the last 2 years or so to get here in the first place. Amidst all the chaos and scathing assessments, i feel it’s very important to acknowledge all my team mates who played in this cycle and most importantly the coaching and support staffs who have held on like a rock of support,” he had tweeted.

Of his 474 career wickets, 132 came in the two WTC cycles he has been a part of, the second most in the tournament's history. And 61 of them were selected in the 2021/23 cycle, the most by Indians and the third highest overall. Yet, Ashwin, who is also known for his batting prowess with five Test hundreds, has been overlooked by skipper Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid.

"The moment, the final finished I put out a tweet because I realised one thing is that I need closure. The moment I get the closure I can move on. There is no time to hang around. I have understood life a lot better now.

The more I see it, the kind of trauma toll it takes on my family is incredible. My father has a heart problem and other issues. Every single game, every single day, something happens, he will call me. He is stressed. It’s very easy for me to go out and play because it is still in my control. For my father, it is not and he goes through double of what I do. So looking at this in hindsight, everybody on the outside is irrelevant," he said.

Moments after the defeat, Ashwin took to Twitter to express his disappointment at India's defeat and acknowledged the efforts put in by the team members despite his "sharp assessment" of the two-year cycle.

Speaking to The Indian Express in the wake of the WTC final snub, Ashwin explained that the tweet was an act to shut down so that he could move on from the heartbreaking episode. He also spoke about the strain on his family, especially his father.

The veteran off-spinner also admitted that he does not like to point fingers at others for what happened or has happened in his career and hence he hated the sympathy messages he received in the WTC final, which he blamed for his ouster. Told the reason. Said. That tweet.

"I have got no sympathy for my journey. It’s very easy for me to go back and say, okay, this didn’t happen for me or something happened for him. I don’t give myself one second of sympathy. That’s why I put that tweet because I wanted closure. I hated the fact that people are giving me sympathy, I just couldn’t take it anymore.

In this social media age, you don’t play and sometimes you are bigger than if you had played the game, right? People are talking, ‘if he had played we would have won’. I am not sure if I had played, we would have won. I would have given my best and I definitely think I gave myself the best opportunity to succeed there. I also think I earned my stripes. That’s all I can do. But the moment it got done, I just wanted to move on and focus on the TNPL for Dindigul Dragons," he concluded.