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nThe proverbial ‘midasntouch’ of Mahendra Singh Dhoni was evident in his faith for an unknownnplayer – Murugan Ashwin. Pune team had surprised everyone by bidding hard fornM. Ashwin and eventually they got him for whooping Rs. 4.5 Crore. His base pricenwas only Rs. 10 lakhs. It means he got 45 times more than the base price. That is few years ago. Murugan is now a star. Pune is no more an IPL Team and he is currently associated with Kings XI Punjab.
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nProfile ofnMurugan Ashwin
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nMurugan Ashwinnwas born on September 8, 1990 in Chennai. After completing schooling education, he tooknadmission in S.S. Nadar College of Engineering. This is quite a prestigiousnengineering college of Chennai founded by the trust owned by Mr. Nadar of HCL.
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nHe had littleninterest in Cricket when he took admission. However, he found a differentnenvironment in the college. Ravichandran Ashwin has also done engineering fromnthe same college. Since, Murugan shares the surname with the star student ofnthis college, students and teachers used to remember Ravichandran Ashwin whileninteracting with Murugan. This inspired Murugan to sharpen his skills as a legnspinner. His hard work paid and the rest is now history.
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nNeedless to say,nMurugan and Ravichandran don’t share blood relation. They just share commonnsurname – Ashwin. They studied in the same college with the same branch. Bothnof them are also Tamil Brahmin by caste. Both of them are spinners – R. A isnOff Spinner while M.A. is leg spinner.
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nM. Ashwin is thenson of famous Tamil Writer Era Murugan, who has also penned some Tamil movies.
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nAccording tonSanjiv Goenka, the owner of Pune IPL Team, both captain Dhoni and Coach StephennFlemming wanted Murugan in the team at any cost. That is the amount of trustnDhoni has for another Ashwin.
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nMurugan has alsonnot disappointed the captain and provided stunning performance in his first IPLnmatch against Mumbai Indians.
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nGirlfriend of MurugannAshwin
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nMurugan Ashwinnis currently dating a girl, who was her classmate at Nadar College ofnEngineering.
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