Ex- Indian Cricketer Reacts To R Ashwin Labeling Team India Members As His ‘Colleagues and Not Friends’

Former India opener Aakash Chopra recently reacted to Indian ace spinnner Ravichandran Ashwin’s remark on Indian team members. R Ashwin recently stated that the current Indian teammates are like colleagues and not friends. Prithvi Shaw also echoed the same thought. AB de Villiers recently stated that players don’t need to get along well for the team to be dominant noting the example of the Australian side of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Akash Chopra opens up on R Ashwin’s comments

Chopra noted the example of the Australian cricket team, saying that the players don’t like each other as much. However, they are successful whenever they are playing. In addition to this, Chopra said that a ‘family atmosphere’ is not mandatory for a team to be successful.

“He said the absolutely correct thing as the successful Australian team, they didn’t really like each other as much, which is okay, but they were unstoppable as soon as they entered the ground. This happens in not one but a lot of teams. Teams don’t need to have a family atmosphere for them to be successful,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.

Chopra further recalled his time with the Delhi Ranji cricket team, stating that the atmosphere there was similar to the Australian side. He said that it was an environment of cut-throat competition where everyone had to score runs.

“I played for many years for Delhi. My extremely close friends were also part of that dressing room but the overriding feeling was that you are on your own – do your own job and everyone was trying to move forward. It was an atmosphere of cut-throat competition where you want everyone to score runs but yourself to score the most,” the former cricketer added.

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