Ravichandran Ashwin gives big hint on Jasprit Bumrah's chances for ODI World Cup 2023

The veteran Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin has come up with a big statement and revelation on the possibility of Jasprit Bumrah playing for Team India in the ODI World Cup 2023. Notably, Bumrah is not in action in international cricket for more than the last nine months since September 2022.

He played his last international match for India on the 25^th of September against Australia in Hyderabad T20I. Earlier, the media reports understood that Bumrah is likely to make a comeback in the national side of Team India for the Asia Cup 2023.

Coming back to Ashwin’s statement, he went on drop kind of a spoiler which came as quite a bit of good news for the Indian cricket fans. The 36-year-old spoke about Bumrah’s possibilities while he was talking about the highly anticipated clash of the ODI World Cup 2023 between India and Pakistan.

"The last few games between India and Pakistan in the World events have been extraordinary, to say the least. I think we can expect another blockbuster India-Pakistan game. It's going to be a very equally-balanced game because Pakistan also have a quality seam attack. For India, obviously, we are expecting Bumrah, maybe even Prasidh… all these guys to be fit. I don't know what the combination is going to look like but all in all, a great contest on hand," said Ashwin in a video on his YouTube channel.

Here's what Ravichandran Ashwin said further

"The game I want to talk about is the one against Pakistan at Ahmedabad on October 15. Of course, it's going to be a sell-out. 130000 will be the capacity audience at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Even in the 2011 World Cup, Ahmedabad had happy memories at Ahmedabad. The same venue was called the Motera Stadium back then where he played our quarter-final against Australia and beat them. We qualified for the semifinal against Pakistan and went on to win that World Cup," he added later.

Speaking of Ashwin, he will be in action with Team India in the upcoming two-match Test series against West Indies next month.