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.
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:
What a champion bowler ๐๐
4๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ Test wickets for @ashwinravi99 and we're sure there's still many more to come ๐๐ป๐ค
Fastest Indian to achieve this milestone ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ณ@Paytm #INDvENG #TeamIndia #PinkBallTest
Follow the match ๐ https://t.co/9HjQB6TZyX pic.twitter.com/QyvRUr9e4Y
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 25, 2021
What a journey for @ashwinravi99. 2nd quickest to get there. We are in the midst of greatness
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) February 25, 2021
Terrific consistency!
Well done, keep it up @ashwinravi99.
Joy to watch you bowl. #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/CEBkoUQVlR
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) February 25, 2021
Well done @ashwinravi99 on reaching 400 wickets .Phenomenal! Congratulations on a fantastic achievement. Great going, keep it up! ๐๐ฝ
— Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) February 25, 2021
Magnificent milestone for the spin wizard @ashwinravi99 Congratulations Ash on 400 Test Wickets. Keep โem coming. #INDvENG @StarSportsIndia pic.twitter.com/jFfa5hyzfV
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) February 25, 2021
Congratulations @ashwinravi99 on 400 test wickets.. well done.. keep going @BCCI @StarSportsIndia #ENGvIND
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) February 25, 2021
A major milestone for Indiaโs spin king R Ashwin ๐#INDvENG pic.twitter.com/QbXdiD8fYO
— ICC (@ICC) February 25, 2021
Fastest Indian to take
50 Test wickets: Ashwin
100 Test wickets: Ashwin
150 Test wickets: Ashwin
200 Test wickets: Ashwin
250 Test wickets: Ashwin
300 Test wickets: Ashwin
350 Test wickets: Ashwin
400 Test Wickets: Ashwin— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) February 25, 2021
Whoโd have thought Ravichandran Ashwin would beat Nathan Lyon to 400 Test wickets? He started the Australia-India series on 365 to Lyonโs 390. Lyon will be stuck on 399 for quite some time. #INDvENG
— Andrew Wu (@wutube) February 25, 2021
ASHWINโS 400 ๐ฅ๐๐ผ The biggest congratulations to Ravichandran Ashwin on 400 Test wickets! He gets Archer out for a duck – LBW. The man is a magician! Time to celebrate! Take a bow Ravi Ashwin! What a cricketer. ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ #INDvENG
— Chloe-Amanda Bailey (@ChloeAmandaB) February 25, 2021
400 Test wickets in 77 matches ๐ @ashwinravi99 what a bowler #INDvsENG
— Surya Kumar Yadav (@surya_14kumar) February 25, 2021
Great cricketer @ashwinravi99 !! #400
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) February 25, 2021
400 cheers to Ashwin @ashwinravi99 #INDvENG #400Wickets
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) February 25, 2021
Fastest to take 600 wickets across formats (Matches)
211 – D Steyn ๐ฟ๐ฆ
226 – G McGrath ๐ฆ๐บ
232 – A Donald ๐ฟ๐ฆ
234 – R Ashwin* ๐ฎ๐ณ
236 – S Warne ๐ฆ๐บ
240 – M Muralitharan ๐ฑ๐ฐ
251 – B Lee ๐ฆ๐บ#INDvENG #PinkBallTest— Sukriti Kuila (@sukriti_stats) February 25, 2021
