new delhi indian star ravichandran ashwin has insisted he has no regrets over his controversial mankad dismissal of england batsman jos buttler which sparked a worldwide debateyou cant say that ashwin is a villain the indian allrounder insisted in his first interview since the storm erupted after he ran out buttler at the nonstrikers end in an indian premier league game last monthpoints table schedulethe kings xi punjab skipper has been at the centre of a major cricket controversy for using the ploy made famous by india player vinoo mankad in 1947 mankading as it has become known is legal but frowned upon by purists unless the batsman has been warnedashwin who seemed to have waited for buttler to leave his crease before clipping off the bails insisted his conscience was clear over the march 25 incidentpeople can say that they believe it is right or wrong that is their opinion but you cant say that ashwin is a villain that is not in my character ashwin told a channel late thursdaythere is nothing to defend it was instinctive i didnt plan to wait for buttler to go out and i will hit the bails he had done that four or five times ashwin saidit is in the rules if the batsman goes out of his crease then you can whip the bails off nobody told the batsman to stay in the crease but it his responsibility to stay inside the creaseand most importantly my conscience was clear people who know me well know that i will never do anything illegalcricketers and pundits have criticised ashwin even the mcc the arbiter of cricket laws released a statement saying that if ashwin had deliberately waited for buttler to be out of his crease that would be unfaira video of england paceman james anderson putting an image of ashwin through a shredder has gone viral on the internet but the indian offspinner is not botheredtoday jimmy anderson might feel that whatever i did was wrong maybe tomorrow he might end up doing mankading it he saidwho knows it is all a question of perception of right and wrong i dont think in this case it is necessary because it is within the lawbuttler who walked back to the dressing room after a heated exchange with ashwin still feels aggrievedi think if you look at the footage probably the wrong decision was made because at the time he was expected to release the ball i was in my crease buttler told britains daily mirror newspaperat the time i was really disappointed with it i didnt like the style of it added buttler who was also a victim of the rare dismissal at the hands of sri lankas sachithra senanayake while playing for england at edgbaston in 2014