R. Ashwin becomes second fastest bowler to claim 200 test wickets
Q. Record broken by R. Ashwin, the off spinner surpassed Waqar Younis and Dennis Lillee to claim how many test wickets in 37 test matches?- Published on 26 Sep 16a. 150
b. 170
c. 190
d. 200
ANSWER: 200
- Record broken by R. Ashwin, off-spinner becomes second fastest bowler to claim 200 test wickets.
- He achieved the milestone in the 37th test match, beating legends Dennis Lillee and Waqar Younis who took 38 tests
- No.1 spot is held by ex Australian leg spinner Clarrie Grimmet who took 36 tests to reach the 200th wicket market
- Ashwin was playing India’s 500th test match against New Zealand in Kanpur
- Ashwin also broke Sehwag’s record for most Man of the Series awards for India in Tests
- In the four-match series, Ashwin scored 235 runs with two centuries and claimed 17 wickets to help India register their biggest Test series victory on the Caribbean soil with a 2-0 win over the West Indies.
- Ashwin became the first Indian to score ton and take five-for in same Test, twice
- He also won Man-of-the-Series award - the sixth of his career - for his special performance. The feat is the most by any Indian in the longest format of the game, surpassing the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Kapil Dev, Harbhajan Singh, Rahul Dravid, Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly.
- He was also the quickest to reach the milestone in 36 test matches and 13 test series past Malcolm Marshall (21 series), Curtly Ambrose (27) and Steve Waugh (54), who all have won the equal number of player of the series honours.
- Tendulkar (74) and Sehwag (39) have five awards each in Test cricket
