Murugan Ashwin Retires: Tamil Nadu leg spinner Murugan Ashwin, who has played for five IPL teams, has retired at the age of 35. Murugan Ashwin announced his retirement on Monday 25 May. This leg spinner played 7 first class matches for Tamil Nadu, and also participated in 34 List A matches. Murugan was a specialist T20 bowler and hence he played a total of 117 T20 matches in his career, in which he took 117 wickets. The world came to know Murugan Ashwin in the year 2016 when he made a stormy entry in the IPL. Rising Pune Super Giants bought this unknown player for Rs 4.5 crore. Let us tell you the amazing story of Murugan Ashwin.
Story of Murugan Ashwin
Murugan Ashwin Her father’s name is Era Murugan, who has been a Tamil writer and scriptwriter. He wrote many scripts for Tamil films, including Ajith Kumar’s famous film Billa 2. Murugan Ashwin excelled in studies, he scored 94.5% in 12th and had a good GPA in Mechanical Engineering. But Murugan Ashwin wanted to become a cricketer and he debuted for Tamil Nadu. In the year 2015, this player made headlines by taking 10 wickets for Tamil Nadu. He became the net bowler of Chennai Super Kings, where Dhoni had his eye on him. In the year 2016, Rising Pune Supergiants bid on Murugan Ashwin and this player with a base price of Rs 10 lakh got a huge amount of Rs 4.5 crore.
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Murugan Ashwin’s journey in IPL
Murugan Ashwin took 7 wickets in his first IPL season but he could not play IPL the next year. In 2018, he was bought by RCB, where he got a chance in two matches and took three wickets. In 2019, this bowler was bought by Punjab Kings where this player stayed for three seasons and he took a total of 16 wickets. In 2022, this player played for Mumbai where this player took 9 wickets. In 2023, Murugan Ashwin played for Rajasthan Royals and this player did not get a single wicket and after this the IPL career of this player ended.
Another player from Tamil Nadu had said goodbye
48 hours before Murugan Ashwin, another player from Tamil Nadu had said goodbye to IPL and domestic cricket. Vijay Shankar had announced his retirement, who scored 223 runs for India in 12 ODIs at an average of 31.8. In 9 T20 matches, he scored 101 runs at an average of more than 25. In first class cricket, Vijay Shankar scored 4253 runs with the help of 13 centuries.
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