Former India off-spinner R Ashwin is relishing his time again at residence with a heat return to the Chennai Tremendous Kings through the IPL 2025 season. In some ways, the Tamil Nadu tweaker has CSK to thank for unearthing and providing him a platform to take his cricketing exploits to the subsequent stage. Inside a yr of creating his IPL debut in 2009 below MS Dhoni, Ashwin was out within the India blues representing the nation.
Returning to the franchise at Rs 9.75 crore signing on the IPL 2025 Mega Public sale in Jeddah final yr, Ashwin mentioned the modifications inside the CSK set-up are negligible when in comparison with different sides.
Reflecting on his change from the Rajasthan Royals after a three-year stint and the CSK reunion on his YouTube channel, Ashwin mentioned: “I at all times inform that ‘change is the one fixed’. In a number of locations and groups, I’ve seen quite a lot of modifications through the years. However in terms of CSK, nothing has modified. Beginning with the backroom employees, the identical composure, the crew music, and many others.,” Ashwin mentioned earlier than delving deeper into the CSK crew music’s origin.
“Actually within the crew music, I forgot the primary few traces this time (chuckles). I attempted singing it sluggish and caught up with the lyrics progressively once more,” remarked Ashwin earlier than placing a marker on the creator of the music.
“It’s a historic indisputable fact that not lots of people know, however the crew music was written by George Bailey. He composed the music and we name him an OG of CSK,” Ashwin mentioned in an interplay with analyst Prasanna Lara (aka Pdogg) on YouTube.
In an outdated clip that has lately gone viral on social media after Ashwin’s revelation, your complete CSK contingent, led by Dhoni himself, will be seen singing the crew music in excessive spirits within the dressing room. The video additionally teases a glimpse of Bailey’s lyrics, coated with just a few expletives, on a banner pinned on the glass of the dressing room.
Love you Bailey 😘💛
— Giri 🇪🇸🇦🇷 (@giri_leo10) March 26, 2025
The lyrics go as:
It’s One other One We’re Successful!
We’re Actually On the Go!
Heaps Of Runs And Wickets!
Now We’re Placing On A Present!
Trigger You Gotta Get Used To
Being Crushed By The Boys From
CHENNAI, CHENNAI.
WHO THE F**Okay IS CHENNAI??
15 Video games, 15 To Go
Until The Skipper Lifts The Trophy Letting
Everyone Know. That You Gotta Get
Used To Being Crushed By The Boys From
CHENNAI, CHENNAI.
WE ARE F””G CHENNAI!!
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Bailey, the present chairman of selectors of the Australia males’s crew, represented CSK for 2 seasons in 2009 and 2010, enjoying 4 matches. His CSK profession short-lived, Bailey returned to the IPL in 2014 with a change in allegiance to the Kings XI Punjab. Bailey’s Punjab would then put the boys from Chennai out from the IPL 2014 semi-final earlier than ending runners-up. Bailey, Ashwin and Dhoni would nonetheless kind a short reunion of types once they could be teamed up along with the Rising Pune Supergiant in 2016.