5 General Male Engineers who became successful Cricketers

Ravichandran Ashwin

 

Born: September 17, 1986, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu

Current age: 29 years 307 days

Major teams: India, Chennai Super Kings, Rising Pune Supergiants, Tamil Nadu

Playing role: Bowling allrounder

Batting style: Right-hand bat

Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak

Ravichandran Ashwin is the current leader of Indian spin bowling department. As one of the latest generation spinners, who depends more on his street smart ability and variations, he has the ability to bowl at any stage and situation of the game. He came to prominence through the Indian Premier League, where he opened the bowling for Chennai Super Kings. He is a handy lower order batsman as well and has scored a couple of international centuries. He did his Bachelor of Engineering from SSN College of Engineering in Information Technology and worked for Cognizant Technology Solutions. Once when questioned about his technical aspect of bowling, Ashwin said “I started going through coaching manuals because that is how I studied for my engineering – if I didn’t understand, I would ask people.” And he has gotten a lot of help from his coaches indeed.