WATCH: R Ashwin signs Jos Buttler’s jersey two times as IPL 2022 season comes to a close

WATCH: R Ashwin signs Jos Buttler’s jersey two times as IPL 2022 season comes to a close

R Ashwin and Jos Buttler

Jos Buttler and Ravichandran Ashwin may had some altercation over mankading incident in 2019 IPL. It remains fresh in the minds of the fans. But to a great deal of surprise they both got signed-in by the Rajasthan Royals franchise and the incident became a talking-point among fans.

What happened next kept enthralling the fans. RR kept entertaining the cricket fans on social media with Jos Buttler, R Ashiwn and not to forget the spinner with a smily face Yuzvendra Chahal. These players played a huge role in RR’s progresion to the final.

The Pink team had reached the final but, in what was a fairy-tale ending, the new face Gujarat Titans led by Hardik Pandya won the trophy. But in all likeliness, both Jos and Ashwin will remain teammates even next season for the franchise.

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As the season concluded, Ashwin signed Buttler’s shirt two times highlighting how their relationship has grown over time. RR shared the video on their social media handles. You can watch below:

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Jos Buttler is the top-scorer in IPL 2022

Jos Buttler
Jos Buttler

Jos Buttler’s was retained by Rajasthan while they spent INR 5 crore to get Ashwin’s services. Buttler had been phenomenal on the field by becoming the top-scorer, finishing the season with 863 runs with an average of 57.33 and a strike rate of 149.05.

Ashwin but surprised the cricket fraternity with not just the ball but with the bat too when RR needed runs on the score-board. In 12 innings, the all-rounder proved that he is just not one of the best in Test but in T20 too. He scored an impressive 191 runs at an average of 27.29 and a strike-rate of 141.48. With the ball, he bagged 12 wickets in 17 innings.

As Gujarat Titans won the season, this didn’t alter the mood of the camp. Not only Ashwin but the entire Rajasthan Royals team signed the Englishman’s shirt. RR had revealed that before signing Ashwin, the management had consulted Buttler about it of his sharing the dressing room with the Indian spinner.

“We spoke to Jos prior to the auction and just talked through all of our prioritisation of players. Honestly, he didn’t even think about it (his run out by Ashwin at the non-striker’s end in 2019). I had to sort of bring it up to just check it was okay. And he said ‘it’s absolutely fine’,” CEO Jake Lush McCrum had said at the media interaction.

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