India’s premier off-spinner R Ashwin received flak over social media and had to issue a clarification after deleting his initial tweet in response to a misinterpreted headline and attempt to troll by a lifeless anonymous account. The incident came to light on Friday (March 11) afternoon – the eve of the second Test against Sri […]
India’s premier off-spinner R Ashwin received flak over social media and had to issue a clarification after deleting his initial tweet in response to a misinterpreted headline and attempt to troll by a lifeless anonymous account.
The incident came to light on Friday (March 11) afternoon – the eve of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Bangalore – when Ashwin’s remarks made for former India batter WV Raman’s contribution in his journey were misunderstood by the ex Tamil Nadu veteran and coach on Twitter.
A misleading headline on a Hindustan Times piece highlighted the word “hard taskmaster”, to which Raman reacted with an “Oops” on his official Twitter handle. Inside, however, it was clear that the word was taken from R Ashwin’s narration of Raman’s astute coaching style on BCCI.tv, speaking of how he hardened young Tamil Nadu players back in the day.
Oops.. https://t.co/DT4MfHPxG6
— WV Raman (@wvraman) March 11, 2022
But even as Raman left his reaction to just a bit of surprise, a troll account going by @IndianHesson tagged Ashwin and accused him of disrespecting Raman and called such behaviour unbecoming of a legendary cricketer.
This tweet caught the eye of Ashwin and the cricketer reacted with a tweet that later got misconstrued as a jibe on state board students.
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R Ashwin drew criticism on social media after a misconstrued tweet.
The moment this tweet came to light, R Ashwin received heavy trolling from certain corners for being disrespectful to state board students.
The cricketer then deleted this tweet and issued a clarification, explaining what he exactly meant and highlighted that he was himself a state board student once.
This headline doesn’t do justice to the content written beneath the heading. Hopefully all of you unlike @IndianHesson will be able to read the entire content.
Also, I was a state board student myself and there was no offence intended.
— Ashwin
R Ashwin is in the pink of health with his overall game ahead of the second Test against Sri Lanka. The experienced cricketer produced a critical knock of 61 in the first-innings of the first Test in Mohali and backed that up with six wickets in the match, including a four-fer in the final innings.
Ashwin’s incredible allround feat helped India secure an innings & 222-run victory in the first Test. The 35-year-old will be hoping to continue his rich vein of form into the pink-ball D/N outing in Bangalore, starting Saturday (March 12).
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