I compete with myself and am at peace in my life: Ashwin

India’s prime spinner in Test cricket, Ravichandran believes that he is not competing with anybody else but himself and has found peace in life with his thought process. The ace tweaker also said that he does not harbour extravagant dreams of a white-ball return, but would be more than happy enough to put in a game-breaking performance. 

Saying that he has found a balance and learnt in life about how to compete with himself, Ashwin said, “I'm competing with myself because when some of these articles or questions get asked about my ODI return or T20 return, what is your ambition, are your white-ball dreams still there and all these things, I find those questions are really laughable.”

"Given an opportunity, I will make a game-breaking performance which I'm almost certain about because of the kind of space I find myself in,” he added saying that he is least bothered about people’s opinion about his comeback. 

Ashwin was phenomenal in the recently concluded home series when he was awarded Man of the Series for picking 29 wickets and hitting a century against England. But the chances of Ashwin, 34, getting a chance in Indian are slim as suggested by skipper Virat Kohli on the eve of the first T20I. 

"Washington has been doing really well for us, so you can't have two players of the same discipline playing in one squad. Unless Washi has a drastically horrible season and things go south for him…the question has to be asked with some kind of logic as well,” Kohli had said.