Senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Sunday surpassed Harbhajan Singh to become the second highest wicket-taker in Tests played in India. Ashwin got past Harbhajan, who took 265 wickets in India at an average of 28.
It is also his 23rd five-wicket haul at home in 45 Tests, going past Anderson's 22 in 89 home Tests. Only Muralitharan (45), Herath (26) and Kumble (25) have taken more five-fors at home than Ashwin.
Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin went past Harbhajan Singh in the list of most Test wickets at home.
The second Test, beginning on Saturday, will take place with the same batch of balls as was the first Test since there is very little time between the two Tests.
Ravichandran Ashwin became the first spinner in over 100 years to take a wicket in the first delivery of a Test innings.
Ishant, the most-capped Test player in this current line-up, on Monday, became the third Indian pacer after Kapil Dev (434 wickets) and Zaheer Khan (311) to reach the 300-wicket milestone.
Ashwin ended with nine wickets in the ongoing first Test, including 6 for 61-- his 28th five-for -- in England's second innings.
Ravichandran Ashwin became the first Indian spinner, and the first in over 100 years to achieve this incredible feat in a Test match.
Ajinkya Rahane took an impressive catch at slips as Ashwin removed Rory Burns on the first ball of England's second innings.
Kohli also revealed the chat he had with Ashwin ahead of the red-ball series in Australia.
The touring party, led by Root's marathon knock, piled misery on Indian bowlers during the first two days of the Test.
Legendary India opener Sunil Gavaskar was also critical of India's woeful fielding show in the first Test.
India have picked off-spinner Washington Sundar (one Test), left-arm spinner Axar Patel (no Test) and chinaman Kuldeep Yadav (six Tests) along with veteran off-spinner Ashwin for the first two Tests.
The third Test was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground and throughout the tour, players and support staffs of both the teams stayed in a bio bubble due to threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
During the third Test, India pacers Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah were also targeted with racial abuse by a section of the crowd.
Ravichandran Ashwin took another cheeky dig at Tim Paine on his official YouTube channel.
R Sridhar and Ravichandran Ashwin recalled the final day of the Sydney Test, when Shardul Thakur decided against passing on Ravi Shastri's instructions to Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari.
Ashwin and Washington are also a part of the Indian squad named for the first two Tests against England in Chennai, beginning on February 5.
On the midnight of India's humiliating collapse in Adelaide, Virat Kohli messaged India's fielding coach R Sridhar - and thus began 'Mission Melbourne'.
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