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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Ravichandran Ashwin Takes 50 Wickets and Creates Indian Record


When R Aswin dismissed Nick Compton on Nov 16,2012 Friday, R. Ashwin became the fastest Indian to take 50 Test wickets, in terms of matches played.
This was R Aswin's 9th Test and the previous record holder was the legendary Anil Kumble, who had reached the milestone in his 10th Test.

The next 5 quickest  are also spinners — 

Narendra Hirwani and Harbhajan Singh (11 Tests)and
Subhash Gupte, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, and Erapalli Prasanna (12 Tests)

The overall record is just 6  Tests — Australian bowler Charles Turner set the record back in 1888.
 South African seamer Vernon Philander threatened that earlier this year before reaching 50 in his 7th Test.

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