Ravichandran Ashwin rarely misses a chance to troll back a troll. On Sunday (October 19), he shared a screen-recording of his WhatsApp, talking to a fake contact of Australian cricketer Adam Zampa.
The number, belonging to the United Arab Emirates, texted Ashwin, addressing him as ‘brother’, and asked for contacts of Indian cricketers Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Jasprit Bumrah, Jitesh Sharma, Rinku Singh, and Shivam Dube. When Ashwin didn’t reply, the troll even tried calling him.
Ashwin then told him that he was ‘sending the list shortly’ and even asked the prankster if the list was ‘enough’ and whether the troll needed former skipper MS Dhoni’s number too. The UAE texter they had Dhoni’s number and even shared a contact card ‘MS Dhoni Indian
Cricketer’.
When the prankster asked Ashwin to share ‘all’ the player contacts he had, Ashwin replied, hilariously, ‘Compiling in excel’ and ‘Preparing it for u’. The chat was posted on his social media accounts:
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/vPPSeqrvbz
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) October 19, 2025
Which team is R Ashwin playing for currently?
Ashwin has retired from all forms of international and domestic Indian cricket, including the IPL. He will now use his time to ply his trade in the various private leagues around the world.
He put his name in the list for the UAE’s ILT20 league auction at the highest base price of USD 120,000 (INR 1.06 crore), but no team bid for him in the first round. Ashwin then pulled his name out of the accelerated auction, refusing to lower his price.
“That’s the price I wanted as a bare minimum, and I’m happy not to play at this stage of my career if my value isn’t met,” Ashwin told Cricbuzz.
After putting his name for ILT20, he also signed up to play for Sydney Thunder for half of the season of the Big Bash League 2025-26 in Australia. After going unsold, he confirmed to Thunder that he’d be available for the full season — which begins on December 14 with the final on January 25.
“I was about to pull out a few days before the auction because of the Thunder deal, but since I had already committed to the ILT20 that I would enter the auction, I honored my word. However, I did not agree to lowering my base price,” he added.
