As R. Ashwin is currently playing for Worcestershire in the Division two of the English county and he has a four-match contract, The national selection committee will be taking a call on whether to summon Ravichandran Ashwin midway through his stint as they pick the squad for the first three ODIs against Australia.
Ashwin’s next assignment is a home game against Leicestershire from September 12-15 followed by his last game against Durham from September 25-28.
With both Axar Patel and Yuzvendra Chahal performing admirably, the selectors may just allow Ashwin to complete his county assignment.
“Ashwin has a contract of four games for Worcestershire. If he is called back after two games only, then the purpose of sending him to get a proper county exposure is lost. It’s the team management and the selectors who decided that he should be playing county cricket,” a BCCI official told.
