Virender Sehwag Tags Ravichandran Ashwin In Hilarious Tweet After Amendments In Cricket Laws

Trust Virender Sehwag to always see the funny side of things. The former India opener tagged Ravichandran Ashwin in his latest tweet, congratulating the India off-spinner after MCC, the custodian of cricket laws, amended some laws of the game on Wednesday. One of the noted ones was its decision to move the law relating to run outs at non-striker's end from "unfair play" section besides completely banning the use of saliva to shine the ball in amendments to its 2022 code that will come into effect in October. Run outs at non-striker's end have often triggered heated debates on spirit of the game and several players like India's premier off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin have advocated for it as a fair mode of dismissal.

Indicating that, Sehwag took to Twitter and said Ashwin will now have “full freedom” to plot run outs with England wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler.

"Congratulations @ashwinravi99, great week this one. First becoming second highest wicket taker in Tests for India, and now this. Ab full freedom (Now you have complete freedom) to plot such run-outs with Buttler. Ek karna zaroor (Be sure to do one)"

Congratulations @ashwinravi99, great week this one. First becoming second highest wicket taker in Tests for India, and now this. Ab full freedom to plot such run-outs with Buttler. Ek karna zaroor ???? https://t.co/oCjfYdr6nr

Ashwin and Buttler are set to turn up for the same team – Rajasthan Royals – in IPL 2022 after the off-spinner was picked up by RR in the auction.

The India cricketer and the England keeper have a fair bit of history between them related to run outs at the non-striker's end. Ashwin, the Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) captain then, had mankaded Buttler in IPL 2019 that sparked a huge debate