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R Ashwin Becomes The Second Fastest Bowler To Take 400 Test Wickets
By CricShots - Feb 25, 2021 6:33 pm
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The veteran Indian off-spinner, Ravichandran Ashwin became the fastest Indian bowler to surpass the tally of 400 wickets in Test cricket on Thursday. R Ashwin, playing his 77th Test, was on 397 wickets at the end of England’s first innings of the ongoing third Test when they were bowled out for 112 and in the second innings he dismissed England batsmen Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, and Jofra Archer to complete the milestones.

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R Ashwin is only behind Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan in the list of fastest players to 400 wickets in the longest format of the game. Muralitharan had managed ti surpass the tally in just 72 Tests.ย Other Indian bowled to have picked more than 400 wickets are Anil Kumble (619), Kapil Dev (434), and Harbhajan Singh (417).

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Ashwin opened his account in the second innings by trapping Stokes lbw and then cleaned up Ollie Pope. Hisย 400th scalp was Jofra Archer, who missed with an expansive sweep shot as the ball hit him low on the pad. India appealed and the on-field umpire gave it out.ย However, as Archer went for DRS, Ashwin’s moment was briefly interrupted, but the third umpire ruled in the favor of the Indian spinner, who completed a well-deserved feat.

Ashwin’s wife Prithi reacted to Ashwin’s milestone of 400 Test wickets with a tweet. She tweeted, “Archer for his 400th. My god, Win.”

https://twitter.com/prithinarayanan/status/1364917467936526344?s=20

The 34-year-old has been in good form with both bat and ball in this series, as he has managed to scalp as many as 23 wickets in the series thus far and scored 176 runs including a century in the second innings of the second Test.

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R Ashwin became the fourth-highest wicket taker for India in international cricket on Day 1 of the third Test as he went past Zaheer Khan’s tally of 597 wickets. In addition to 400 Test wickets, Ashwin has 150 wickets in ODIs and 52 in T20Is since his international debut in 2010.

Here are some of the congratulatory message for R Ashwin after completing the milestone:

 

 

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