Team India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin gave the world a glimpse of his incredible cricketing sense as he kept his nerve and helped his side over the line as they defeated Pakistan by four wickets in a thrilling encounter on Sunday.
The match went down to the last ball, but before that, an incident occurred that prompted a reaction from Chennai 28 movie's director Venkat Prabhu as Ashwin recreated a scene from his film as India prevailed over Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2022 clash.
The Tamil director was ecstatic as Ashwin was clever enough to leave a delivery going down the leg stump, which was ultimately adjudged as wide as India needed 2 runs to win.
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A similar incident was shown in Chennai 28, the movie, where the character moved towards the stump to make the ball wide.
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Ashwin unintentionally recreated the scene in real life after he came in the middle to join Virat Kohli, with India needing 2 runs to win on 1 ball. Cleverly, he just left the delivery from Mohammad Nawaz and it went wide.
This presence of mind in such a pressure situation shown by Ashwin thrilled not just Director Venkat Prabhu, but the entire nation.
Check out some of the best reactions to Ashwin's clever trick:
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Meanwhile, Virat Kohli was the architect of India's famous win as he played an all-important unbeaten 82 run-knock, which helped te Indian team recover from a spot where they were reduced to 31/4. He stitched together a crucial partnership with Hardik Pandya, and once the latter was dismissed, Ashwin became the hero for showing nerves of steel.
