The proverbial ‘midas
touch’ of Mahendra Singh Dhoni was evident in his faith for an unknown
player – Murugan Ashwin. Pune team had surprised everyone by bidding hard for
M. Ashwin and eventually they got him for whooping Rs. 4.5 Crore. His base price
was only Rs. 10 lakhs. It means he got 45 times more than the base price. That is few years ago. Murugan is now a star. Pune is no more an IPL Team and he is currently associated with Kings XI Punjab.
Profile of Murugan Ashwin
Murugan Ashwin
was born on September 8, 1990 in Chennai. After completing schooling education, he took
admission in S.S. Nadar College of Engineering. This is quite a prestigious
engineering college of Chennai founded by the trust owned by Mr. Nadar of HCL.
He had little
interest in Cricket when he took admission. However, he found a different
environment in the college. Ravichandran Ashwin has also done engineering from
the same college. Since, Murugan shares the surname with the star student of
this college, students and teachers used to remember Ravichandran Ashwin while
interacting with Murugan. This inspired Murugan to sharpen his skills as a leg
spinner. His hard work paid and the rest is now history.
Needless to say,
Murugan and Ravichandran don’t share blood relation. They just share common
surname – Ashwin. They studied in the same college with the same branch. Both
of them are also Tamil Brahmin by caste. Both of them are spinners – R. A is
Off Spinner while M.A. is leg spinner.
M. Ashwin is the
son of famous Tamil Writer Era Murugan, who has also penned some Tamil movies.
According to
Sanjiv Goenka, the owner of Pune IPL Team, both captain Dhoni and Coach Stephen
Flemming wanted Murugan in the team at any cost. That is the amount of trust
Dhoni has for another Ashwin.
Murugan has also
not disappointed the captain and provided stunning performance in his first IPL
match against Mumbai Indians.
Girlfriend of Murugan Ashwin
Murugan Ashwin
is currently dating a girl, who was her classmate at Nadar College of
Engineering.
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