10 most arrogant statements by cricketers
It is shocking that many world-class players and absolute legends of the game have gone on to make arrogant statements.
4) Ravichandran Ashwin- I was blessed with an ethical mind not to fix games
Ravichandran Ashwin has been one of the funniest cricketers of all time. He has often been praised for his witty sense of humour and amazing comebacks. However, this wasn’t the case this time as Ashwin went on an offensive mode and made an arrogant statement while having a conversation with Herschelle Gibbs.
The legendary spinner took offense to Gibbs’s tweet and said that he never fixed matches like Gibbs. Replying to Ashwin’s post regarding a running shoe brand, Gibbs replied suggesting that the new footwear would help enhance the spinner’s ability to run fast. Ashwin, though, took the war of words to a higher level with a sharp retort. Ashwin replied by saying “…I wasn’t as blessed as you were. But I was blessed with a wonderfully ethical mind not to fix games which put food on my plate,” said Ashwin, who took a dig at Gibbs
Gibbs was fined and suspended for six months by his national board after he agreed to under-perform in a one-day international as part of the match-fixing scandal spearheaded by then South Africa (SA) captain Hansie Cronje. Everyone was shocked by Ashwin’s tweet as one wouldn’t associate Ashwin with such kind of tweets. Ashwin then went on to delete his tweets and made peace with Gibbs.
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