R Ashwin
India vs New Zealand R Ashwin Record: In the second test match being played between India and New Zealand, R Ashwin created a new record by taking 3 wickets. R Ashwin gave the first three big blows to the visiting New Zealand team, which won the toss on the first day of the Pune Test and came to bat first. Ashwin first hunted Tom Latham in the 8th over and then got Will Young caught behind the wicket. After this he took his third wicket in the form of Devon Conway. With this, R Ashwin achieved the top position in the history of the World Test Championship.
In fact, Ashwin has become the highest wicket-taker in the history of the World Test Championship i.e. WTC. He left Nathan Lyon behind. He overtook Lyon as soon as he took the second wicket. Before this match, Ashwin was the second highest wicket taker in the WTC with 186 wickets while Nathan had 187 wickets in his name. As soon as Ashwin sent two batsmen to the pavilion, he went ahead of Nathan Lyon. Ashwin achieved this great feat in less innings than Lyon.
Bowler taking most wickets in WTC
- 189 – Ravichandran Ashwin (74 innings)*
- 187 – Nathan Lyon (78 innings)
- 175 – Pat Cummins (78 innings)
- 147 – Mitchell Starc (73 innings)
- 134 – Stuart Broad (63 innings)
After this, Ashwin achieved a new milestone in Test cricket as soon as he took his third wicket. In fact, along with showing the way to the pavilion to 3 New Zealand batsmen, Ashwin scored a unique century in Test cricket. Ashwin did the great feat of taking 3 wickets in an innings of a Test match for the 100th time. Before Ashwin, only 6 bowlers in the history of Test cricket had done such a feat. For India, Anil Kumble had achieved the great achievement of taking 3 wickets for the 100th time in an innings of a Test match in the year 2006.
Bowlers who took the most 3 wickets in an innings of a test match
- 163 – Muttiah Muralitharan (230 innings)
- 142 – Shane Warne (273 innings)
- 120 – Anil Kumble (236 innings)
- 113 – James Anderson (350 innings)
- 104 – Glenn McGrath (243 innings)
- 101 – Stuart Broad (309 innings)
- 100 – Ravichandran Ashwin (196 innings)
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