Ravichandran Ashwin Sets New World Record in Test Cricket with Century and Bowling Feats
Ashwin Becomes the First Player in History to Score 20+ 50-Plus Knocks and Take 30+ 5-Wicket Hauls in Tests, Leading India to 339/6 Against Bangladesh
India's Ravichandran Ashwin has created a world record. Ashwin created history during the first Test match against Bangladesh. Ashwin did wonders by scoring a century during India's innings. This is Ashwin's sixth century in his Test career, during his century innings, Ashwin has done a big feat in his Test career. Let us tell you that Ashwin has been successful in scoring 50 or more than 20 times in Tests. Now Ashwin has become the only batsman in the history of Test cricket who has a record of scoring more than twenty 50-plus scores and taking more than thirty 5-wicket hauls in bowling. Ashwin has become the first player in the world to do so.
Ashwin has so far scored 6 centuries and 14 half-centuries in his Test career and has also done wonders of taking 5 wickets 36 times. During the first test match against Bangladesh, as soon as Ashwin crossed the score of 50 runs during his batting, he made this world record in his name. By the way, Ashwin is unbeaten after scoring 102 runs on 112 balls at the end of the first day's play. Apart from Ashwin, Jadeja is unbeaten after scoring 86 runs. On the first day, India has scored 339 runs for 6 wickets.
Earlier, after winning the toss, the Bangladesh team chose to bowl first. India has chosen fast bowler Akash Deep as the third fast bowler option. Yashasvi Jaiswal played an innings of 55 runs in the first innings for India, but after that, no big batsman could score big, Ashwin and Jadeja played brilliant innings and pulled India out of trouble.
Team India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Deep and Mohammed Siraj
Bangladesh Team: Nazmul Hussain Shanto (captain), Shadman Islam, Zakir Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mominul Haque, Shakib Al Hasan, Litton Das (wicketkeeper), Mehdi Hasan Miraz, Nahid Rana, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud.