NEW DELHI: Former India head coach Rahul Dravid and senior spinner Ravichandran Ashwin revisited a controversial second from the 2023 Border-Gavaskar Trophy through the newest episode of Kutti Stories with Ash. The incident revolved round Ashwin going through backlash for allegedly serving to Australia by a Tamil-language YouTube video on enjoying spin in India.The controversy erupted after Ashwin uploaded the video following Australia’s defeat within the second Test. The criticism intensified when India misplaced the third Test at Indore, with social media customers accusing Ashwin of “coaching” the opposition. The channel was finally pressured to vary the video’s thumbnail.Dravid mild-heartedly introduced up the episode with Ashwin.“You even coached the Australian team. I got sent a clip. Unfortunately, it was in Tamil. So that’s the one I’ve seen about you. You’re speaking in Tamil and with a little bit of Tamil that I understand, you’re coaching the Australian team in the middle of the Australian series, how to play spin. And I’m thinking, Ash, the series is not over,” Dravid mentioned.Ashwin responded in his defence: “If I knew how to do that, I would have told our boys how to play spin. I mean, why would I go and tell the Aussies?”Dravid admitted he was joking but additionally revealed he too had confronted flak at the time. “The flak I got was ‘Ashwin is coaching better than you are — what are you doing?'” he mentioned with amusing.
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Ashwin additionally recalled a dialog with Mitchell Starc through the Indore Test: “An interesting thing was that (Mitchell) Starc came and told me. I mean, he bowled a bumper, and I just left it in the Indore Test match. I think we were 80 for 7 or something. We went for lunch, and he was walking with me. He was like, ‘Can I tell you how to play the bouncer like your YouTube video?'”Dravid additional joked that the Australians may need discovered a translator: “It’s good to know that Starc knows Tamil. I think it was maybe the Australian guys got some Tamil guy to sort of…” he mentioned, earlier than Ashwin clarified that the video carried subtitles.