A comeback of such proportions as seen over the last four days in Melbourne can’t be attributed to one reason. There were several instances during India’s victory when different individuals in the team took it upon themselves to make a difference.
Ashwin, of course, was more than ready to have a go. Speculation over his commitment in England in 2018 had really hurt him. “I am a proper street dog. If you push me down, shoot me, kill me with a knife, stab me, I will still wake up for a fight,” he had told Cricbuzz earlier this year. He is a man with wide interests beyond the game who in the recent past, seems to have reinvented himself as a brand in the Tamil-speaking world.
