Comment

He has had a fantastic Test debut. He will grow in stature and repute. Ravichandran Ashwin is here to stay and for long.

The tall off-spinner has his personal planets in Virgo and Aquarius. While Virgo makes him an intellectual with a sharp mind and perfectionism, Aquarius adds a touch of genius and mad hat originality in him. Uranus and ‘Planet-Y’ are in deep exaltation and Venus too is strongly placed in his horoscope. This phenomenon would make him a player of extraordinary achievements and among the most decorated.

The carrom ball specialist is currently under a favourable period from 2010 to 2018, when he would scale many peaks and grow from strength to strength. He would do extremely well at home against Pakistan, New Zealand, England and Australia.His bowling efforts while on tour to Australia, Sri Lanka and South Africa would be the saving grace for a struggling India.

Though, the IT engineer would be instrumental in engineering many a win for India in this period, he may not feature in major tournaments. He would be a major force during the 2012 World Twenty20 and the 2015 World Cup too, but in losing causes. Soon to marry, Ashwin would captain Tamil Nadu with brilliant success.

A phase would come in Indian cricket when Ashwin and Rahul Sharma would bowl in tandem and bamboozle batsmen world over. Ashwin would make a mark as one of the best slow ball bowlers to have played for India and probably the best ever from Tamil Nadu.

—Lobo is a city-based astrologer