Defending 157, Ashwin was getting the Capitals in a position of strength before walking off. He will not bowl anymore today.
Ravichandran Ashwin Injury: In what was looking to be a memorable debut for Delhi Capitals Ravichandran Ashwin, things did not go according to the script as he picked up a shoulder injury and had to walk off the field. Ashwin – ex-KXIP skipper was playing against his former team – and his knowledge of the franchise seemed to be coming in handy as he picked up the wickets of Karun Nair and Nicolas Pooran.
Defending 157, Ashwin was getting the Capitals in a position of strength before walking off. He will not bowl anymore today. It would be interesting to see you bowl the three overs that Ashwin could have bowled. The injury could become a gamechanger.
R Ashwin injures his shoulder.
Diving on his right, R Ashwin injured his left shoulder and left the field immediately. That would have hurt.
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The incident transpired off the last delivery of the over to Glenn Maxwell, Ashwin dived to his right to stop the ball that was traveling towards the long-on. While diving, the off-spinners’ right shoulder hit the ground and ended up hurting it. He seemed to be in tremendous pain while he was being walked out of the field.
It did not look good from a Capitals point of view to see their premier spinner on spin assisting pitches walk off with an injury in their tournament opener.
It would be interesting to see if Ashwin misses the upcoming games or not, that will depend purely on the nature and extent of the injury which would now be assessed. The loss of Ashwin could act as a big setback for the Capitals.
At the time of filing the copy, KXIP needs 25 off 12 balls, Mayank Agarwal is playing a blinder and is on 65 off 49 balls.
