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‘Why are you going so close on Steve Smith?’: R Ashwin discloses what his wife told him about his obsession with record breaking Australian batter | Cricket News

‘Why are you going so close on Steve Smith?’: R Ashwin discloses what his wife told him about his obsession with record breaking Australian batter | Cricket News

While Australian batsman Steve Smith crossed the 10,000 run mark apart from hitting his 35th Test hundred during the ongoing first Test against Sri Lanka earlier this week, former Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has shared how he was obsessed with the Australian drawing his wife asking about him having a man crush on Smith. The Indian off-spinner had dismissed Smith eight times during his Test career and recounted his battle with the Australian batsman. “I don’t know how many times I watched Steve Smith bat, I can’t even remember. My wife was in the room, my kids were in the room. I don’t think I saw them properly at all for a few days. Like I kept zooming in on something, my wife watched from behind and said ‘what the hell are you watching? Why are you going so close on Steve Smith? Do you have like a…’. I think she was concerned and rightly so. I wouldn’t have faulted her if she thought I had a man crush on him,” Ashwin said while speaking …