This cricket star joins elite club, becomes second Indian to complete 500 wickets in Tests

PTC News Desk: Cricket is a team sport, but yet every day, every month and every year, we find some select faces that stand out in a crowd of hundreds of players out there representing their national flag on the pitch. The right-arm off spin bowler and a lower order batter, Ravichandran Ashwin added another gem to his illuminating crown as he became the second Indian to complete 500 wickets in Tests.

Ashwin achieved the feat during a match against England, the off-spinner was on 499 scalps at the end of the second Test in Vizag and completed his 500th with the wicket of Zak Crawley on Day 2 of the third Test.

The spin maestro has become the second Indian, following former spinner Anil Kumble, and the ninth overall player to claim 500 wickets in Test cricket. Ashwin now joins a prestigious list of nine bowlers in Test history to achieve this milestone. 

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Notably, Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne, Anil Kumble, and Nathan Lyon stand as the only spinners with more Test wickets than him.

Debuting in November 2011, the spin maestro has been a pivotal figure in India's Test bowling lineup, particularly excelling on home turf, where he has secured 347 of his 500 wickets.
 
Ashwin reached the milestone in his 98 Test matches, trailing only Muttiah Muralitharan in terms of time. Each of the remaining seven bowlers required more than 100 Test matches to reach the milestone.
India's star spinner Ashwin has 34 five-wicket hauls and eight 10-wicket match hauls in his shinning Test cricket career.

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Ashwin is widely regarded as one of the finest spin bowlers of his generation, marked by his exceptional skills as an off-spin bowler and his contributions as an all-rounder.

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