Ultimate Indian Cricket Champions: R. Ashwin: Ravichandran Ashwin

Off-spin, carrom ball,armball,sliders, drift, dips – Ashwin excels at them all

Ravichandran Ashwin has always played the long game. A cricket mad boy on the streets of Chennai to becoming one of India’s greatest match-winners, Ashwin played through illness, injury, doubt and long spells on the sidelines. This book traces his early days at Chepauk, the family that held him steady, the reinventions that shaped his career and the centuries that made him a modern great. From childhood dreams to record-breaking feats, this is the story of a man who never stopped staying in the game. Here’s a warning: once you start reading this book, you may just not be able to stop.

Harismita Vaideswaran is a Delhi-based PhD researcher in African literature, copy head at a creative agency, a social media wrangler for a cricket league and curator of ‘The World of Girish Karnad’ on Instagram.

When not writing (or procrastinating writing), she’s rewatching the same three TV shows or haunting her local post office.