Ashwin was caught on camera smelling team jerseys just behind where the IND v ZIM toss happened.
India won the match by 71 runs after bowling out Zimbabwe for 115 as they were chasing 187 to win the match and cause a huge upset. For India, KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav scored half-centuries and R Ashwin picked three wickets, while Hardik Pandya and Mohammad Shami took two wickets each.
In the video shared by social media users, Team India captain Rohit Sharma was speaking to Ian Bishop during the toss. In the meantime, Ashwin was seen collecting his jersey from the ground. Finding two similar jerseys, he sniffs both and after identifying his own, he throws the other one down and leaves.
This leads to former India cricketers Abhinav Mukund and Harbhajan Singh teasing R Ashwin on social media.
“Ash what are u smelling @ashwinravi99”, Harbhajan Tweeted.
While Abhinav Mukund posted: “Watched this video multiple times already. Just cracks me up again and again. @ashwinravi99 pls enlighten us with your logic of picking the right sweater.”
To this R Ashwin quoted the tweet and said that, “Checked for the sizes to differentiate!❌ Checked if it was initialed❌ Finally ???????? checked for the perfume i use”