As he becomes the second Indian player to score 350 wickets during home Test cricket, Ravichandran Ashwin keeps making history. During the fourth Test in Ranchi, the off-spinner achieved a significant milestone by taking out England for the second time. All in all, he became only the fifth bowler to reach this mark. In addition to reaching this milestone, Ashwin took 100 wickets against England and 400 Test wickets across Asia.
Although Ashwin was only able to take one wicket during England’s opening innings, he hurt the visitors during the third innings by taking two fast wickets.In the fifth over, he removed opener Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope with consecutive deliveries. Ashwin became the top wicket-taker upon Indian soil with his 3rd wicket of the match, surpassing Anil Kumble in Tests.
It will take Ravichandran Ashwin only three wickets to surpass Muttiah Muralidaran as the most wicket-taker in Asian history. Ashwin became the second-quickest player to reach 500 Test wickets. With an average of 21.31, Ashwin presently has 348 wickets throughout 113 innings in India. Kumble, the leader, had taken 350 wickets with an average of 24.88 across 115 innings.
More records that can be accomplished during India vs England fourth Test
The legendary English fast bowler has 698 wickets across 185 Tests, is just two wickets away from being the first-ever pacer to reach 700 Test scalps. The only spinners with more wickets taken are Shane Warne (708), and Muttiah Muralitharan (800) of Sri Lanka. In the first two games of the series, Anderson has already claimed six wickets.
The Indian captain, one of the all-time greats of contemporary times in all formats, is 21 runs short of reaching 4,000 Test runs. He has 3,979 runs with an average of 45.19 in 57 Tests, with 11 hundreds and 16 fifties. 212 is his greatest score in the oldest format of the game. Rohit has amassed 240 runs with an average of forty in six innings and one century in three games thus far.
