On the third day of the second match of the four-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test Series AUS vs IND played in Dilli, Indian spinner and all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin (Ravichandran Ashwin) took 3 wickets in Australia’s second innings batting. Chatkaye and got 705th wicket in first class cricket. With this, he made a special record in his career.
Significantly, Ravichandran Ashwin made his international debut in the year 2000. And, he is the only Indian debutant after that to have scored 5,000 runs in first class cricket and taken 700 or more wickets in first class cricket matches.
Significantly, before him Vinoo Mankad, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Kapil Dev and Anil Kumble also have the record of 5000 runs and 700 wickets in first class cricket.
Records show that Vinoo Mankad scored 11591 runs in first class cricket during his career and also took 782 wickets. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan scored 6617 runs and took 1390 wickets. Kapil Dev scored 11356 runs and took 835 wickets. And Anil Kumble scored 5572 runs in first class cricket and took 1136 wickets in his career.
Vinay Kumar