apart from being a champion offspinner r ashwin also speaks with refreshing candour his onfield intensity has good company in the form of his offfield wit it was evident when he saw the gathering which was supposed to interact with him when he stepped into the toi mumbai office as guest editor this seems like a cbi investigation he joked before settling down for a 90minute chat on his injury recuperation and his lack of ambition to be captainexcerpts from an interactionhow did the injury affect your performance was it affecting your follow throughi was struggling to accelerate at the crease if you watched the entire home season you could see that the acceleration was getting slower and slower i was finding it harder to accelerate at the crease and jump it was a challenge but through the three months i consciously tried to drop weight in the past it was only about gaining strength but i felt the body was not able to take the load so i had to pull down some weight and hence towards the end of the series i was able to accelerate but only for three or four overs the spell i bowled in dharamsala in the second innings was one that i had to because we knew the game was on the linehow much will you miss being part of the ipl will you be visiting the rps dug outlaughs i dont think so i dont think i will be visiting the dug out i dont think i am missing the ipl as i am catching up with it at 8pm daily sometimes by taking a birdseye view i might be able to work on my own skills there are important fixtures coming up and i am trying to make best use of this timehow has batting at no 6 changed things for you mentallyi enjoy it a lot it puts a little bit more pressure on me and when i walk into bat i try and tell myself to pace the innings well rather than putting a price tag or number on the runs that i get i try and play the ball on the ground for the first 20 balls as much as i can and play as close to my body as possiblein tests you average 32 with the bat in odis it is 16 how keen are you to improve your odi performancesi bat at no8 which is very low to maintain any sort of average because half the time you just play your shot unselfishly and get out but i dont want to hide behind those things ive asked virat if he can bat me at no3 laughter id definitely love to bat higher but there are good enough batters who are doing the job right now i have other plans as far as odi cricket goes i have a vision about where odi cricket and t20 cricket is headed in the next four or five years and