'It's been a journey!' - Ashwin reflects on 500-wicket milestone - video Dailymotion

Ravi Ashwin was delighted after taking his 500th Test wicket, dismissing Zac Crawley

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00:00 It's been a very long journey, sir. I don't exactly know where to begin because I was an accidental spinner.

00:09 I wanted to be a batter all along. Life gave me a chance and when I walked into the CSK dressing room,

00:15 Muthiah Muralidharan didn't want to bowl the new ball and eventually I got tossed the new ball.

00:19 I had a reasonable first class start to my life. First class career was pretty good but nevertheless,

00:25 the stage in the IPL made me visible to a lot of people and I eventually got my test debut.

00:31 People doubted me whether I could be a test bowler and yeah, 10-13 years later, not a bad achievement.

00:37 I'm really happy where I am in life. Forget it as just being in cricket. Like I said, like he just said,

00:44 you intellectualised bowling or whatever. I don't know where that came from but if that's how people want to perceive me, great.

00:51 I've always fought a level of perception in my life about what people think of me but definitely in the last six,

01:00 five, six years, I've actually not cared about it because I mean, I can't keep proving everybody wrong or I can't prove everybody right.