Ex-India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan called Ravichandran Ashwin "fool" and "most unfit cricketer" on X, with his posts going viral. Sivaramakrishnan also stated that Ashwin is playing for India because there is nobody else. Reacting to his viral posts, a fan commented, "Surely this guy has been hacked." Another wrote, "You need to have some guts to spit facts like these."