Former India Test cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin revealed a hilarious story about nearly giving away Virat Kohli’s number to a scammer at the end of the Indian Premier League’s 2025 season. Speaking on his YouTube channel, Ashwin reminisced how someone texted him, claiming to be New Zealand and CSK star Devon Conway.

Ashwin revealed how he chatted with the number thinking it was his Chennai teammate and wished him well for future endeavours. However, when the account started asking Ashwin for numbers of the players, that is when the India star started feeling fishy.

“After the IPL got over, one guy messaged me, claiming to be Devon Conway, ‘Hi buddy, how are you?’ and I also responded, ‘We’ll stay in touch. You’re playing in MLC; I’ll watch the games.’ He then asked, ‘I’ve lost Virat Kohli’s number, can you share it?’ I thought, why is he asking for Virat’s number? I thought I should ask him, but I didn’t want Devon Conway to misunderstand. Then I picked Virat Kohli’s card and gave him a different number,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.

“Once I shared it, he replied, ‘I’ve lost a few more numbers.’ I asked whose numbers, and he responded, ‘Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni.’ I got suspicious and thought somebody was playing a prank,” Ashwin added.

Then just like a Grandmaster on the chess board, Ashwin pulled off an elite move. He counter questioned Conway and asked him about a bat that he had supposedly given Conway during the IPL season. And that is when the scammer fumbled.

“I then asked him a question, ‘I gave you a bat this year, how’s that bat?’ He said the bat is amazing, but I hadn’t even given him any bat. He lied, and I blocked him instantly. The guy took a chance. I went back to the CSK group and checked Devon Conway’s number, and it was not the same. At least I had the smarts to send the duplicate card of Virat. It was his WhatsApp number in Australia. Thank goodness, because he was asking for everybody’s numbers,” he concluded.

2 Indians Recieve Calls from Kohli, AB de Villiers

Recently, two Indian citizens, Manish Bisi and his friend Khemraj revealed that they had received calls from Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. The duo were given the number of Rajat Patidar in a SIM card mix-up.

Manish got the SIM card from a local mobile shop near his Madagaon village in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district and was in for a shock of a lifetime as the number previously belonged to Patidar.

Soon, Manish and his friend Khemraj were fielding calls from renowned cricketers, including Kohli and De Villiers. At first, the duo saw that Patidar’s picture came up when they installed WhatsApp and thought it was a system glitch. However, soon they started to get calls, which they thought were part of a prank from their friends.

Later on, Manish and Khemraj got a call from Patidar on July 15, who asked them to return the number. They understood the seriousness of the matter when police arrived at their doorstep to resolve the matter.

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