New Delhi. Team India won the 5-match Test series against England by 4-1. India won the last test by an innings and 64 runs. When the England team came out to bat in the second innings, Ravichandran Ashwin once again wreaked havoc on them. Ashwin took a total of 5 wickets in the second innings. At the same time, he took 4 wickets in his name in the first innings. R Ashwin broke Anil Kumble’s record by taking 5 wickets in the second innings.
R Ashwin has played 100 test matches for India so far. During this period, Ashwin took 5 wickets a total of 36 times. At the same time, Anil Kumble also took 5 wickets 35 times in 132 matches. Before the fifth Test match against England, Ashwin was at par with 5 wickets 35 times each. But now Ashwin has gone ahead of Anil Kumble. There are only 3 bowlers above Ashwin who have taken 5 wickets more times than him.
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Sri Lanka’s great bowler Muttiah Muralitharan is in the first place. Muralitharan has taken 5 wickets a total of 67 times in 133 test matches. At the same time, Australia’s Shane Warne is at second place, who took 5 wickets 37 times in 145 tests. Richard Hardley of New Zealand is at number three. Who has achieved the feat of taking 5 wickets a total of 36 times in 86 tests.
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Ashwin took the wickets of Jack Crawley, Ollie Popp, Ben Duckett, Ben Stokes and Ben Fox in the second innings. In this way the England team collapsed for only 195 runs in the second innings. Joe Root played a brilliant inning of 84 runs for England. But he could not take the score forward. Jonny Bairstow also played an inning of 39 runs in 31 balls. Apart from this, no player from England could cross the 20-run mark in the second innings.
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Tags: Anil Kumble, Muttiah Muralitharan, Rashwin, Team india
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 9, 2024, 17:52 IST