Why did Ravichandran Ashwin leave Rajkot Test for Family Emergency? Wife shares What Exactly Happened

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Ravichandran Ashwin will be taking the Dharamshala pitch to play his 100th Test match for India.

The Indian spinner has already cracked a major milestone in the ongoing series, claiming 500 Test wickets, and is now on the verge of completing another stellar record.

Ashwin has been excellent throughout the series, picking up 17 wickets. But the player had a major scare amid the Rajkot Test, when he had to fly away to Chennai in the middle of the Test match for a Family Emergency, which was related to his mother's health.

Recently, Ashwin's wife Prithi opened up on the reason for the emergency and what exactly happened on that day.

"During Rajkot, the kids had just got back from school when five minutes later, he got to 500. And soon, all of us were on the phone answering all the congratulatory messages," she wrote in her column on Indian Express.

"It was then that I heard a sudden scream from aunty as she collapsed, and in no time we were at the hospital. At that point, we had decided not to tell Ashwin because there wasn't good flight connectivity between Chennai and Rajkot," Prithi wrote in the column.

She also revealed that she called Cheteshwar Pujara to get the details of a flight from Rajkot to Chennai, and also had a talk with her husband.

"So I dialled Cheteshwar Pujara and his family were of great help. And once we found a way out, I called up Ashwin because after the scans, the doctor suggested it was better to have her son around. Over the phone, he sounded so broken and hung up. It took another 20-25 minutes to process what I told him and for him to call back. And thanks to Rohit (Sharma), Rahul bhai (Dravid) and the others in the team and the BCCI - who followed up all the way till he reached here - he got here late at night," Ashwin's wife added.

Ashwin reached home and saw her mother admitted in the ICU. Thankfully, his mother recovered and she is doing well, and Ashwin also came back to rejoin the team on Day 4 of the Rajkot Test.

"It was a very emotional moment for him to see his mom in the ICU. And after she stabilised, we asked him to rejoin the team. Given his personality, he would never leave a game like that. And he would have an extreme amount of guilt if he didn't win the game for his team. Through those couple of days, I realised his yearning for time with his parents is a lot more now and it is coming with age and maturity," Prithi concluded in her column.