Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday reacted to his father’s recent comments where the latter alleged that his son took the shock retirement decision because of humiliating treatment.

“My dad isn’t media trained, dey father enna da ithelaam. I never thought you would follow this rich tradition of “dad statements”. Request you all to forgive him and leave him alone,” the off spinner posted on X.

Earlier on Thursday, Ashwin’s father had said in an interview with CNN News18, “The sudden change – retirement – gave us really kind of a shock. At the same time, we were expecting it because humiliation was going on. How long he can tolerate all those things? Probably, he would have decided on his own.”

“I too came to know last minute, actually. What was going on in his mind I don’t know. He just announced. I too accepted it with full pleasure. I did not have any feelings at all for that. But the way he gave his retirement, I was very happy, another part not happy because he should have continued,” he said.