Ravichandran Ashwin, India’s ace spinner has bid adieu to international cricket after representing the country for 14 years at the highest level. The 38-year-old champion bowler made his senior India debut in an ODI match at Harare against Sri Lanka and his final game eventually was the Test match at Adelaide against Australia.
In between, he featured in 285 games across three formats for India, taking a whopping 765 wickets and scoring 4394 useful runs with the bat. He was part of India’s victorious 2011 World Cup & 2013 Champions Trophy squads respectively and was a key performer for the team in both those events.
In all, the veteran has had an illustrious career in Indian colors and bows as one of the country’s sportspersons. His fighting attitude and shrewdness on the field made him a successful cricketer for India in all forms of the game, but more so in Test cricket.
Let’s relieve some of his records in his favorite format, ie Tests, where he held his forte.
R Ashwin Bowling Stats (All Formats)
| Format | Matches | Wickets | Average | 5w/4w | BBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 106 | 537 | 24 | 37/25 | 7/59 |
| ODI | 116 | 156 | 33.2 | 0/1 | 4/25 |
| T20I | 65 | 72 | 23.22 | 0/2 | 4/8 |
| Combined | 287 | 765 | 25.8 | 37/28 | 7/59 |
Ravi Ashwin’s Records in International Cricket
Tests:
11: Ravi Ashwin has won the most “Player of the Series” awards (11 in 44 series) in Test history. He jointly holds the record alongside Muthiah Muralitharan who also won 11 such awards in the 61 series he played.
7: With 537 wickets, Ashwin ends Test cricket as the seventh-highest wicket-taker in the format. Nathan Lyon closely follows the departing off-spinner with 533 scalps. He finished as India’s second-most wicket-taker only behind Anil Kumble.
2: Ashwin has the joint second-most five-wicket hauls in Test history (37) along with Australia’s Shane Warne. Muralitharan leads the way with 67 fifers in Tests.
5: He has the fifth most ten-wickets-in-a-match in a career in Tests (8) and joint most by an Indian alongside Kumble.
1: Ashwin remains the fastest to take 250 (45), 300 (54), and 350 (66) Test wickets in history. He was the second fastest after Muralitharan to scalp 400 (77), 450 (89), and 500 (98) Test wicket milestones. He is the fastest Indian to breach 50,100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, and 500 wickets which is a sensational achievement.
4: Ashwin has scored a century and taken a five-wicket haul in a match a whopping four times. Only Ian Botham (5) has done it more than the off-spinner in Test history. Find out who has achieved the combo feat of 100 runs and 10 wickets in a Test match.
2: Ashwin is the only Indian after Kapil Dev to score 250 runs and take 20 wickets in a series in Tests. While Ashwin achieved it in the home Test series against England in 2016 (306 runs and 28 wickets), the former India skipper has done it twice.
4: He has the fourth most number of Test wickets through the way of bowled (109) and ninth most LBW dismissals (151).
4: Ashwin took 72 wickets in 12 games in the year 2016 and this is the fourth most tally of wickets taken by an Indian in a calendar year.
You can find out Ashwin’s Test wickets distribution year-wise and on the basis of home/away to understand how consistent the modern legend has been throughout.
Combined Records
1: Ashwin has the most five-wickets-in-an-innings for an Indian player along with Kumble (37). All of his fifers came in the Test format.
3: He has the third most player-of-the-series awards for an Indian player behind Virat Kohli (21) and Sachin Tendulkar (20). This is also the seventh most among all the players in international cricket.
2: Ashwin is India’s second-highest wicket-taker in international cricket (765) and Kumble leads the way with 956 scalps across ODIs and Tests.
