R. Ashwin
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Test cricket
Bowling record
Till June 2018
From: July 26, 2018: The Times of India
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R Ashwin’s bowling record in test cricket, till June 2018.
CAREER, YEAR-WISE
2021
As in Feb 2021
February 26, 2021: The Times of India
From: February 26, 2021: The Times of India
Ashwin scales yet another peak
Offie Cements Greatness, Becomes Second Fastest To Take 400 Test Wickets
K.ShriniwasRao@timesgroup.com
Ahmedabad:
Only Muttiah Muralitharan has taken lesser time to claim 400 scalps in Test cricket.
An alumni of the much-respected Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan school in Chennai, who later did his B-Tech in Information and Technology,.
Nine years and 110 days after he made his debut against the West Indies back in 2011, Ravichandran Ashwin — 34 going on 35 — reached the landmark with Jofra Archer’s wicket in the 24th over on Day Two of the fourth Test match in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
In doing so, he is currently the 16th highest wicket-taker in the game and has a long way to go before he’s done.
The last 12 months have been phenomenal for the Tamil Nadu spinner as he went about picking 39 wickets in just seven Test matches, 13 of those coming on the tour of New Zealand last year and 26 between the tour of Australia and the series against England taking place now.
Such has been the pace at which he’s gone about getting to the coveted milestone, that when India’s Test series in Australia started in December 2020, Nathan Lyon was on 390 wickets and Ashwin on 365 — both in the race to 400. Lyon is currently at 399 while Ashwin has already zoomed past the mark.
For a bowler perennially under the spotlight, especially given the debate on the skewed ratio between his wickets at home and abroad, Ashwin certainly took it upon himself to silence them all. It’s been a long way off since that South African sojourn, where he had gone wicketless for more than 35 overs and the then familiar shadow of doubt would painfully loom every now and then, especially when India played outside Asia.
The fastest to reach 250, 300 and 350 wickets in Test cricket,
His batting, of course, being the cherry on that cake and those crucial knocks — in Australia and Chennai — have put him on the proverbial pedestal reserved for world class all-rounders.
Ashwin now holds the record for the most Man of-the-Series awards for an Indian cricketer and the second most 10-fors for India after Anil Kumble.
A huge movie-buff and often outspoken on societal concerns, the bowling all-rounder has come across as a ‘thinking man’s cricketer’ over the years. The Tamil Nadu State Election Commission roping him in to catch the attention of citizens to create electoral awareness, where Ashwin advised voters to check whether their names are in the electoral roll, is a case in point.
