“She is the biggest reason for India to win this World Cup” - Ravi Ashwin makes a big statement

Former Indian spinner Ravi Ashwin has lauded the left-arm spinner Sree Charani for her heroics in the recently concluded ICC Women’s World Cup 2025, which the Indian women’s team successfully won after defeating South Africa Women by 52 runs in the grand finale on Sunday, November 2.

Speaking on his YouTube channel, Ashwin asserted that Sree Charani was the main reason behind India winning the World Cup. Furthermore, he added that the left-arm spinner would be a superstar in the future. 

For the unversed, Charani ended her maiden ODI World Cup with 14 wickets in nine matches at an average of 27.64. She came out with the figures of 2/49 in 10 overs in the semi-final and 1/48 in nine overs in the final.

“Her ball rotation is at the correct speed. If it matches Sophie Ecclestone, Jess Jonassen or Sophie Molineux, her weight transfer. She goes into a lovely side-on position. From there, her hand comes to the front. There is no collapse anywhere. There is no energy leakage,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.

“She crushed the World Cup. She is the biggest reason for India to win this World Cup. She is going to be a superstar bowler in the future,” he added.

Additionally, Ashwin also asserted that everyone will talk about the seeds sown by Harmanpreet Kaur in the same way Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni lifted the respective World Cups in 1983 and 2011. 

“The thing is coming from a place like this, Harmanpreet Kaur would have seen a lot of disappointments. The 2017 World Cup final, for instance, where they beat Australia and lost to England in the final. Jhulan Goswami was there. Harmanpreet Kaur has seen such things. She has faced defeats. She has seen defeats from situations where the World Cup could have been won. From outside, you may not be witness to the effort she has put in,” he noted.

“The seed she has sown, after 10 or 20 years, how Kapil Dev sowed it, how Dhoni sowed it in 2011 or 2007, like how we talk about those, we will talk about this as well,” he concluded.

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