Ravichandran Ashwin has responded to the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) statement. A few days ago, Ashwin, while speaking on his YouTube channel, had said that Dewald Brevis was paid money under the table so that he would join CSK as an injury replacement player.
Ashwin clarifies his Brevis remark
The comment caused a storm. People started accusing CSK of cheating. Yesterday, the franchise put out a statement where they categorically denied any wrongdoing. Since Ashwin started the matter, he has also ended it by clarifying what he had said before.
“We live in such times where we have to clarify even true stories. In that way, it is a bit tricky. But I won’t go there. There is no one at fault here. The clarification here on this matter has arisen from the fact that a lot of people have doubts. The point is the player is not at fault, the franchise is not at fault, and maybe the governing body is also not at fault. All of us need to understand that if a franchise needs a player, the franchise talks to the player or the player’s agent and tells the BCCI, ‘Look, so-and-so player of ours is injured; we need another player. ’ The matter gets closed there,” Ashwin said on Ash ki Baat.
“The IPL, or those who need to give approval, give the approval, and the player comes and plays. If there was any fault here, that player would not have played in the franchise. This is not about Brevis; it is generally the case. There is one other thing I want to explain. My intention in the video was to describe how well Brevis was batting. We have to understand that every player who plays in the IPL has a tri-parted contract: the player, the franchise, and the IPL have a binding contract.”
Ashwin pointed out that CSK isn’t the first team to use the injury replacement option. He cited how Chris Gayle, who’s perhaps the greatest IPL batter of all time, had joined RCB as an injury replacement and then played for them for almost a decade.
“So, if something is wrong with it, it won’t get ratified. That is why, probably, the tweet that said clause so-and-so makes complete sense. The flexibility that is there with the IPL’s injury replacement, everyone is making use of it. It is not only CSK who have picked a replacement; there have been several other teams. RCB have taken Chris Gayle in the past, and he became a superstar. Injury replacements are a common facet of the IPL, and even in that, the rule flexibility that you have, how you make use of that, within the limit, you can use it. That is the point,” Ashwin added.
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