Ravichandran Ashwin
The Indian cricket team will take the field to play the first match of the 2-match Test series against South Africa from 26th December. The first test match of the series will be played on the grounds of Centurion. All the key players of Team India will be seen making a comeback in this series in which Rohit Sharma will take over the responsibility of captaincy. With the end of ODI World Cup 2023, many senior players including Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah were rested. Now everyone is completely ready to return to the field again in this 2-match Test series. In this Test series, all eyes are once again going to be on the performance of off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who has seen excellent performance in Test cricket so far.
Ashwin can equal this record of Muralitharan
Ravichandran Ashwin has so far in his Test career bowled 178 innings of 94 matches and taken 489 wickets at an average of 23.66. During this period, where Ashwin has taken 5 wickets in an innings 34 times, he has taken more than 10 wickets in a match 8 times. On the basis of his brilliant performance, Ashwin has won the title of Player of the Series 10 times in Test cricket and in this list, he is now behind only former Sri Lankan team player and veteran bowler Muttiah Muralitharan. During his Test career, Murali played a total of 133 Test matches in 61 series, out of which he managed to win the title of Player of the Series 11 times. In such a situation, if Ashwin is successful in showing amazing performance with his bowling in this 2-match Test series, then he will be able to match Muralitharan.
This has been Ashwin’s performance so far against Africa in Test cricket.
So far, Ravichandran Ashwin has played a total of 6 Test matches in South Africa, in which he has managed to take only 10 wickets at an average of 50.50. Apart from this, if we look at Ashwin’s overall performance in the Test against Africa, he has taken a total of 56 wickets in 13 matches at an average of 21.95.
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