Ashwin's fifth Test hundred -- a gutsy 106 off 148 balls along with Virat Kohli's near flawless 62 off 149 balls got India to a more than decent 286 in 85.5 overs, leaving England with an improbable target of 482 runs
Ashwin now has 2624 runs in 76 Tests and 391 wickets. Only Kapil Dev has scored more hundreds and taken more wickets than Ashwin.
Ravichandran Ashwin brought up his first fifty-plus score since 2017 in Tests as he reached his 12th half-century against England in Chennai.
Ashwin went past Harbhajan, who took 265 wickets in India at an average of 28.76, by dismissing Ben Stokes
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.
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