Legendary opener Sunil Gavaskar believes there's a reason why Virat Kohli is a success on any surface and conditions, and the former Indian batsman explained how.
Ashwin is an integral part of the Indian Test team but has not played a limited overs match in international cricket since July 2017.
The spinner admitted that his DRS calls were not upto the mark, especially on his return to Indian surfaces after a hard-fought series in Australia.
The International Cricket Council's official social media profile took to Twitter to announce the recipient.
Ashwin has now won eight Man-of-the-Series awards in his 10-year career and is only eight wickets short of equalling Harbhajan Singh's 417 Test wickets.
Ishant Sharma drew first blood after England opted to bat first in Ahmedabad before Axar Patel and R Ashwin picked three wickets between themselves as visitors went 4 down at Tea. Yet, Zak Crawley stood out with his 53-run knock.
Ashwin scored his fifth Test century on Monday, and subsequently became the first Indian player to score a hundred and take five wickets in an innings of a Test for the third time.
With the dismissal of Broad, Ashwin became the only bowler in Test cricket history to have dismissed 200 left-handed batsmen, a milestone he reached only a month after surpassing Muttiah Muralitharan to take the top spot on the elusive list.
Ashwin grabbed his record 29th five-wicket haul as India folded England for mere 134 with visitors conceding a 195-run lead. India lost Shubman Gill early but Rohit helped to extend lead to 249.
Be it for his keeping or batting, be it with one of India's greatest or any other player, Pant needs a break from all sorts of comparisons, expressed Ashwin
Thanks to senior off-spinner Ashwin's effort, India bowled out England for 134 in their first innings for a massive first-innings lead of 195 runs.
Anderson's dismissal was his sixth in the innings taking Ashwin's taking of 6-plus wicket hauls to 15 which is the sixth-highest in Test history and second amongst Indians after Kumble (19).
After Graham Gooch, who was one of the finest exponents of sweep shot against Asian spinners, current skipper Root -- with scores of 228 and 186 in Sri Lanka -- has shown his mastery on low and slow tracks.
Besides Ashwin and Pant, two other Indians -- Mohammed Siraj and T Natarajan -- are also in the fray.
The Indian spinner feels nobody was talking about him on who will pick Steve Smith's wicket during the Australian tour but they surely were talking about him at the end of the series.
The Oz skipper says he had a really poor game as a leader and wanted to say sorry for the way he behaved on the field during the final day of the third Test, which ended in a morale-boosting draw for the Indians.
Aussies were left frustrated as Vihari (15* off 160) bats out the day with hamstring as he forged an unbeaten partnership with Ashwin to earn Team India a morale-boosting draw at the SCG.
While Ashiwn and Vihari handled the Aussie pace attack and spin wizardry of Nathan Lyon pretty well, Ashwin admitted that the pitch was of no help in the partnership especially with Pat Cummins coming at them with all his mights.
Vihari (23* off 161) bats out the day with hamstring as he forged an unbeaten 250-ball 62 partnership with Ashwin (39 off 128) to earn Team India a morale-boosting draw at the SCG.
Vihari (23* off 161) bats out the day with hamstring as he forged an unbeaten 250-ball 62 partnership with Ashwin (39 off 128) to earn Team India a morale-boosting draw at the SCG.
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