Indian cricket team's star offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin has said goodbye to international cricket. The Indian cricket team is participating in the Border Gavaskar Trophy on the Australian tour. Three test matches of the series have been played and Ashwin said goodbye to international cricket after the third test and returned home. The third test match of the series was played in Brisbane, on the last day of the match i.e. on 18 December, Ashwin announced his retirement from international cricket. Two days after retirement, Ashwin has shared a screenshot of his call-log of the last day as an Indian cricketer on social media. Apart from his father, Ashwin was called by legendary players like Sachin Tendulkar and Kapil Dev.

After Ashwin's retirement, Kapil Dev even said that Team India should have stopped him from retiring and should not have allowed such a great player to retire like this. R Ashwin is 38 years old. Although Ashwin will continue to play club cricket and domestic cricket, he will no longer be seen playing for India. Sharing the call log on social media, Ashwin wrote, 'If someone had told me 25 years ago that I would have a smart phone and the call log of my last day as an Indian cricketer would look like this, I would have had a heart attack at that very moment. Sachin Tendulkar and Kapil Dev paaji thank you.'

Regarding R Ashwin's retirement, his father had said in an interview that how much more insult he could bear, so he retired, while Ashwin said that his father is not media trained. Ashwin has played 106 Tests, 116 ODIs and 65 T20 International matches for Team India as a bowling all-rounder. During this time, he has taken 547, 156 and 72 wickets respectively in all three formats, while scoring 3503, 707, 184 runs. Ashwin has scored 6 centuries and 14 half-centuries in Tests. He has one fifty to his name in ODIs.