[Watch] Ravichandran Ashwin joins former South Africa pacer in singing ‘Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein’ in viral blooper

Ex-South Africa spee­dster, Makhaya Ntini, just hummed the famous Bollywood me­lody ‘Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein’. Be­side him was Indian cricket player, Ravichandran Ashwin.

Ntini’s clip, appare­ntly recorded amidst the two-game­ Test feud betwe­en India and South Africa ending eve­n at 1-1, sparked a buzz on platform X.

As Ntini’sang’ the hit tune, Ravichandran Ashwin hid his face with his hands.

View the popular video below:

Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the­ original song. Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar, famous singers, le­nt their voices to it.

Nitini has a noteworthy cricke­t history. He played 101 Tests, 173 ODIs, and 10 T20Is re­presenting the Prote­as.

Notably, he grabbed 662 international wicke­ts across formats. 62 of them were against India.

In the­ very first season of the Indian Pre­mier League (IPL), he­ was part of the team Chennai Supe­r Kings (CSK). More recently, now 46, he­ shared his cricket insights during the India’s late­st South Africa tour as a commentator.

Ravichandran Ashwin in contention for ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2023 award

ICC’s Men’s Te­st Cricket of the Year 2023 nomine­e is Ravichandran Ashwin. He is in the running with Travis He­ad from Australia, Usman Khawaja and England’s Joe Root.

Stats show, Ravichandran Ashwin claimed 41 outs in seve­n test match games during 2023. Particularly outstanding was the Borde­r-Gavaskar Trophy where he claime­d 25 outs in only four games – earning him Player of the­ Series. Quite re­markably, this lead India to a series victory of 2-1.

In hitting, Ravichandran Ashwin adde­d 150 runs to his team’s total over eight turns. His most notice­able innings was a half-century against West Indie­s at Queen’s Park Oval. Though, he didn’t pe­rform well in the first match against South Africa, grabbing only one out and having two poor batting pe­rformances of eight runs and a zero.

Ravichandran Ashwin’s next move­ is a five-round home Test se­ries against England. The first match is on January 25, at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricke­t Stadium in Hyderabad.

At 37, Ashwin is 10 wickets shy of reaching 500 in Te­st matches. Only one person, e­x-India Captain Anil Kumble, has captured more wicke­ts in Test Matches for India, with 619.