Ashwin created history..! Record that no Indian all-rounder has done..!?

Sowmiya Sriram
Ashwin created history..! Record that no indian all-rounder has done..!?
Indian team spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has taken a record of 500 wickets in Test cricket. In addition, he has also achieved another important feat. Ashwin will help the indian team with batting as well as bowling. Ashwin has accumulated more than 3000 runs in Test cricket. Only two players have scored more than 3000 runs and taken more than 500 wickets in the Test world so far. Ashwin is the third in the line of legends. Australian spin bowling legend Shane Warne has amassed 3154 runs in Test matches and has taken 708 west indies wickets.
Next to him is england fast bowling legend Stuart Broad who has accumulated 3662 runs and has taken 604 wickets. Ashwin is next to them with 3308 runs and 500 wickets. He has accumulated 3308 runs in 139 innings. He has scored 5 centuries and 14 fifties. He has accumulated a maximum of 124 runs.
Ashwin reached the milestone of 500 wickets in the third Test against england by taking the wicket of opener Jack Crowley. india scored 445 runs in the first innings of this match. The next england team scored 207 runs for the loss of 2 wickets at the end of the second day's play.

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