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Thursday, August 11, 2016

2016 West Indies Vs India Third Test @ St Louis Aug 09-14,2016 - Ravichandran Ashwin Equals Kapil Dev's Mark, Enters Prestigious Club Wednesday Aug 10,2016

In the current series, Ravichandran Ashwin  is the leading wicket-taker as well as the leading run-scorer.

 R Ashwin Century West Indies

After scoring a hundred in the first Test at Antigua, Ashwin notched up his second hundred of the series. In addition to his two five-wicket hauls, the Chennai offspinner has joined a prestigious list.

Ravichandran Ashwin joined Kapil Dev and Bhuvneshwar Kumar as the third Indian player to take two five wicket hauls and score two centuries in a Test series. While Kapil Dev has achieved it twice in his illustrious career, Bhuvneshwar Kumar achieved this in the five-Test series against England in 2014.

Ravichandran Ashwin,the right-handed batsman also scored his fourth hundred in just his eighth Test against West Indies.

Ravichandran Ashwin is fourth in the all-time list of Indian batsmen who have scored centuries against the West Indies, with Sunil Gavaskar leading the list with 13, followed by Dilip Vengsarkar with six and Rahul Dravid with five.

For the first time, India's No.6 and No.7 batsman combined to score centuries in the same innings. Ravichandran Ashwin was joined by Wriddhiman Saha who notched up his maiden century in Tests.


Their 213-run partnership for the sixth wicket is the best by an Indian duo against the West Indies in Tests, surpassing the 170 set by Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri in the 1983 Chennai Test

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