-Vinay Kumar
In the AUS vs IND 1st Test Match being played in Nagpur, Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first. But, in front of the dangerous bowling of the Indian bowlers, the Australian team was piled on a score of 177 runs in the first innings. India had dismissed both the Australian openers for 2 in the first 2 overs itself.
After that the batsmen tried to handle the innings, but the Indian bowlers continued to wreak havoc. As soon as the experienced spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed Australia’s wicketkeeper-batsman Alex Carey in the Indian team’s first innings bowling, he set a new record in the history of Test cricket. have done. He took his 450th wicket in Test cricket. Alex Carey was batting explosively, scoring 36 runs in 33 balls with the help of 7 fours and was clean bowled by Ashwin. When Ravichandran Ashwin picked up the wicket of Alex Carey, he became the 5th spinner to take 450 or more wickets in the cricket world. Apart from this, talking about all-over bowlers, he became the 9th bowler to take 450 wickets in Test cricket.
Ravichandran Ashwin achieved 450 Test wickets in the 89th match of his Test cricket career. Among the spinners who have touched this figure before him are Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne, Anil Kumble and Nathan Lyon.
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Ravichandran took 3 wickets in Australia’s first innings batting in the Nagpur Test. The second wicket was of Pat Cummins Captain Team Australia and the third wicket was of Scott Boland. In this way, including 3 wickets in the first innings, it was the 452nd wicket of his career.
Not only this, Ravichandran Ashwin is the only player in Asia in the history of Test cricket, who has scored 3000 runs along with taking 450 or more wickets. The highest wicket-taker in Test cricket is Indian bowler Anil Kumble, who took 609 wickets. After him, Ravichandran Ashwin is now the second name in terms of getting the most Test wickets.