India’s veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Friday achieved yet another milestone in his distinguished International career which began a decade ago. The Tamil Nadu born off spinner has now become the only Indian spinner to notch the most number of 5-wicket hauls in India after his figures of 6/91 against Australia in the 4th BGT Test here at Ahmedabad.
Although, the visitors were pretty dominant over the hosts since the 3rd test, Ashwin’s performance on Day 2 has been the only positive for India. With his 5-wickets today, the versatile spinner has overtaken Anil Kumble’s tally of 25 fifers at home.
This has been yet another marvellous bowling performance from the senior spinner @ashwinravi99 ๐ช๐ช
This is his 26th 5-wicket haul in India, the most by any bowler! ๐๐ฝ๐ซก#INDvAUS @mastercardindia pic.twitter.com/hH3ySuOsEY
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 10, 2023
This was Ashwin’s 26th Fifer in the Indian soil and he also earned himself a few more records other than this. In case you don’t know, the 36-year-old is the fastest bowler in Red ball cricket to pick 350 wickets and it took him 66 Test matches to reach that career milestone which he achieved in 2019 against South Africa.
๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐!
Congratulations to @ashwinravi99 who now is the leading-wicket taker among Indian bowlers against Australia and also the joint-leading wicket-taker in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with 113 wickets.#INDvAUS #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/MRwLWEnP4v
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 10, 2023
Ravi Ashwin is now officially the leading wicket taker for India in the Border-Gavaskar trophy history with 113 wickets and has surpassed many Indian cricketing greats. Ashwin’s 113 wickets in BGT also makes him the joint highest wicket taker ever since the origination of the series way back in the 1970’s.
Todd Murphy is given out LBW!
That's a 5-wicket haul for @ashwinravi99 ๐ฅ๐ฅ
His 32nd in Test cricket.#INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/NF9H8wUtWG
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 10, 2023
In terms of Fifers at home soil, Ravi Ashwin is second alongside Rangana Herath with 26 and only Mutthaih Muralidharan has more 5-wickets in home soil with 45. Ashwin unlocked another personal milestone with his fifer today. He now has 32 5-wicket hauls which is the 6th highest number of fifer in world cricket.
๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ! ๐ฅ๐ฅ
A sigh of relief for #TeamIndia as @ashwinravi99 strikes twice in an over to remove Cameron Green and Alex Carey ๐ช๐ป๐ช๐ป
Follow the match โถ๏ธ https://t.co/8DPghkx0DE#INDvAUS | @mastercardindia pic.twitter.com/e8caRqCHOq
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 10, 2023
His illustrious career is blooming even more and the 36-year-old is ageing like fine wine. Not to forget, he was one of the crucial members of the Indian team which won the 2011 ICC Cricket World cup at Wankhede and also the ICC Champions Trophy in 2013 at England.
Meanwhile, Australia in the 2nd day got all out for 480 runs and India have begun chasing the mammoth trail. India have played 10 overs in their 1st innings and are 36/0 with Rohit Sharma and Shubhman Gill scoring 17 and 18 respectively.
