Former India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has heaped praise on women’s team left-arm spinner Sree Charani for her exploits in the 2025 Women’s World Cup. The 39-year-old felt that she was going to be a superstar bowler for the future and analysed what she was doing right as a bowler, since making her international debut in April 2025.
Charani finished her maiden ODI World Cup with 14 wickets in nine matches at an average of 27.64 and displayed a lack of fear for the big stage by claiming figures of 2/49 in 10 overs in the semi-final and 1/48 in nine overs in the final on Sunday.
“Her ball rotation is at the correct speed. If it matches Sophie Ecclestone, Jess Jonassen or Sophie Molineux, her weight transfer. She goes into a lovely side-on position. From there, her hand comes to the front. There is no collapse anywhere. There is no energy leakage.”.
“She crushed the World Cup. She is the biggest reason for India to win this World Cup. She is going to be a superstar bowler in the future,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel on Monday.
Ashwin further said that everybody would talk about the seeds sown by Harmanpreet Kaur and her side by winning the World Cup, in the same way Kapil Dev lifted the 1983 World Cup and MS Dhoni won the 2007 T20 World Cup are spoken of.
“The thing is coming from a place like this, Harmanpreet Kaur would have seen a lot of disappointments. The 2017 World Cup final, for instance, where they beat Australia and lost to England in the final. Jhulan Goswami was there. Harmanpreet Kaur has seen such things. She has faced defeats. She has seen defeats from situations where the World Cup could have been won. From outside, you may not be witness to the effort she has put in”.
“The seed she has sown, after 10 or 20 years, how Kapil Dev sowed it, how Dhoni sowed it in 2011 or 2007, like how we talk about those, we will talk about this as well,” the 106-Test veteran said.
