The spin partnership between Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin has been extraordinarily important for the Indian cricket group in Test cricket. Recently, each cricketers supplied essential performances to information their aspect to a historic win over England within the five-match Test sequence. Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Jadeja had a particular message for Ashwin and it had a particular Rajnikanth connection. In the previous, Ashwin has used numerous references from Rajnikanth movies in his YouTube movies.

“Hi Ash Anna, congratulations on your 100th Test match and 500 Test wickets. I am very, very happy for you, and your contribution to Indian cricket has been amazing. You can continue taking a lot of wickets and sharing your mastermind with me so that I can also take a few wickets and become a great legend like you,” Jadeja mentioned within the video from a Chennai Super Kings coaching session.

Indran Calling Chandran!

Wishing our Tamil Singam Ash on his Spincredible!#WhistlePodu@imjadeja @ashwinravi99 pic.twitter.com/EV5k1u0y7A

— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) March 17, 2024

“And we also share the same name as well. I am Ravi Indran and you’re Ravi Chandran. Meesha vachavan Indran, meesha vaykathavan Chandran (The one with the moustache Indran and the one without the moustache, Chandran),” Jadeja mentioned.

It was a reference to Rajnikanth’s iconic double function within the 1981 Tamil film ‘Thillu Mullu’, a remake of a 1979 Bollywood film ‘Gol Maal’.

Ashwin and Jadeja are at present probably the most profitable bowling pair in Test cricket with 542 wickets in 53 matches. The skilled duo have a mean of taking 10.23 wickets per match – one of the best by any bowling pair within the longest format of the game (amongst bowling pairs with greater than 310 wickets).