Team India is currently playing the first Test of the three-match series against South Africa in Centurion. After the visitors dominated the first Day, rain played spoilsport and washed out the entire Day 2.
As rain frustrated players on Day 2 in Centurion, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted a video on their official Twitter account in which senior Indian off-spinner R Ashwin and bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur were seen having a fun chat.
In a video titled ‘Walk & Talk’, Shardul Thakur asked R Ashwin about his dance videos, which he has posted a few times on his social media accounts.
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Replying to this, R Ashwin said that his video of dancing along with Washington Sundar and Team India analyst Hari Prasad Mohan was there on his phone's camera roll for a long time but he didn’t post it.
He then quipped that after he saw the video of Shardul Thakur, Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer dancing, he then decide to post it.
"If I have to look back at it, I don't know whether you got motivated by my first video which was on a song of actor Vijay, which is in fact quite popular. To be honest this video of mine with Washi and Hari, it was there in my camera roll for long but I didn't think of posting it.
“I decided to post it after I saw the video of you, Shreyas and Rohit dancing. It seemed very similar but you guys were better choreographed and stuff like that," R Ashwin said.
R Ashwin said that dance is completely out of the syllabus for him. He added that he wants to dance but he cannot. “Dance is something that is completely out of syllabus for me. I look at myself and I think I want to dance in a certain way but I definitely cannot," R Ashwin.
Shardul Thakur then asked, "But you can surely move your shoulder quite well. Is that because of your bowling?"
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Replying to which R Ashwin said, “No, the step is like that. I think the actor Vijay got inspired by me and actually did it,”
