"I Am MVP Of My Cricket, Not Rohit Sharma Or Virat Kohli": Ravichandran Ashwin

Ravichandran Ashwin doesn't want people to celebrate his career or worship him.

Ever since India all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin announced his sudden retirement from international cricket, tributes have been pouring in from all corners for the veteran cricketer. However, Ashwin doesn't want people to celebrate his career or worship him. For him, the sport is above all individuals. However, the owner of 537 Test wickets said that he does want to burst a few cricketing myths. Former England captains Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain had a detailed virtual conversation with Ashwin, who is currently in Chennai following his retirement from international cricket.

During the interaction, Ashwin gave some interesting insights into his memoir "I Have The Streets: A Kutty Cricket Story" which was released earlier this year in July. During the chat, Ashwin opened up on one of the biggest myths about him. He said that people think that he is too serious and doesn't enjoy the game as much as someone like Virat Kohli. 

However, Ashwin's insisted that's not the case, adding that he gets lost while playing cricket.

"I wanted people to know me for who I am, because a lot of times, Ashwin's picking up a wicket and Virat Kohli is all over the place. He's just jumping about and people very often tend to believe that Ashwin's the one that's absolutely serious and Virat's the one that's having all the fun, which is why somebody asked me the question, why are you serious all the time? My answer to that in the first place is I'm never a serious person, but when somebody is clobbering me and I have the ball in my hand to win a Test Match for my country, my mind is sticking, because I'm in the process. So very often, you don't see me picking up a five-wicket haul and pushing across a kiss through the blade of my bat to my better half sitting in the dressing room or sitting in the hospitality box. So I felt like a lot of who I am got diluted in the fact of what I've become. So I wanted to bring that out in my book," Ashwin said on Sky Sports.