{"id":147851,"date":"2025-09-16T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147851\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:09:08","slug":"exclusive-r-ashwin-poised-for-ilt20-stint-with-possible-player-coach-role-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147851\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: R Ashwin poised for ILT20 stint with possible player-coach role | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/chennai-chennai-super-kings39-ravichandran-ashwin-during-a-practice-session-ahea.jpg\" alt=\"Exclusive: R Ashwin poised for ILT20 stint with possible player-coach role\" title=\"Ravichandran Ashwin (PTI Photo\/R Senthilkumar)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Ravichandran Ashwin (PTI Photo\/R Senthilkumar) TimesofIndia.com in Dubai:<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ravichandran-ashwin\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ravichandran Ashwin<\/a>, who described his post-IPL chapter as the start of his journey as an \u201cexplorer of the game across leagues,\u201d is all set to play in the ILT20 League.&#8221;We&#8217;re having very positive conversations with Ashwin, and hopefully we&#8217;ll have positive news in the near future,&#8221; ILT20 CEO David White told TimesofIndia.com in an exclusive interview.&#8221;If we can have a player of his stature, it would be huge. He is a world-class, generational talent. He has over 500 Test wickets, an outstanding ODI and T20I career, and what a cricket brain. A charismatic figure, an intellect of the game. If he plays in the ILT20, we will be delighted,&#8221; said White.<\/p>\n<p>Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, Cheteshwar Pujara retire&#8230; who next?<\/p>\n<p>The legendary spinner has also spoken about exploring roles where he can both play and coach.When asked how open the ILT20 is to such a role, White said: &#8220;I think we&#8217;re very open to anything like that. Not only his playing and coaching, but also his analytical skills. He has his own media company, which he&#8217;s working on. He&#8217;s a very clever guy. We would welcome all aspects.&#8221; White further stated that he is positive Ashwin will play in the ILT20. &#8220;We hope to get him. Let&#8217;s see what happens. Very positive for the moment,&#8221; he said.Last month, Ashwin announced his retirement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/indian-premier-league\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Premier League<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPL<\/a>) and highlighted that he now aims to explore playing in overseas T20 leagues.&#8221;Special day and hence a special beginning. They say every ending has a new start. My time as an IPL cricketer comes to a close today, but my time as an explorer of the game around various leagues begins today,&#8221; Ashwin wrote on X.Ashwin ends his IPL career as the league\u2019s fifth-highest wicket-taker with 187 scalps in 221 games at an economy rate of 7.2.\u201cOf course, I won\u2019t be playing everywhere for 10 months,&#8221; Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.\u201cWhatever each team\u2019s requirements are, and the ones I satisfy, I&#8217;ll play in those leagues. I&#8217;ve already registered for one, so let\u2019s see how that pans out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravichandran Ashwin (PTI Photo\/R Senthilkumar) TimesofIndia.com in Dubai:Ravichandran Ashwin, who described his post-IPL chapter as the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,43215,740,1950,99830,13849,13848,26651,99831,44656,99829,85,29877],"class_list":{"0":"post-147851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chennai-super-kings","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-cricket-news","13":"tag-ilt20","14":"tag-indian-premier-league","15":"tag-ipl","16":"tag-r-ashwin","17":"tag-r-ashwin-retirement","18":"tag-ravichandran-ashwin","19":"tag-ravichandran-ashwin-franchise-cricket","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-t20-cricket"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}