NEW DELHI: Greater than 100 Assessments and over 500 wickets. Ravichandran Ashwin has fought exhausting to ship and drive himself previous these milestones to take a seat amongst India’s main bowlers. And the veteran off-spinner is way from carried out, regardless of being 38 and within the twilight of his profession.
Ashwin is as soon as once more proving to be the thoroughbred to beat within the house straight of the 2023-25 World Check Championship (WTC).India’s final stretch of 10 Assessments to conclude this WTC cycle started with the two-match house collection towards Bangladesh, which Ashwin bossed with 11 wickets, together with a six-wicket spell.
In two WTC cycles for the reason that event’s inception by the Worldwide Cricket Council in 2019, Ashwin has topped the bowling charts as soon as (2019-21) and has pushed Pat Cummins to second place within the present cycle (2023-25) together with his haul of wickets towards Bangladesh.
Apparently, the bowler on prime of the 2021-23 WTC wicket-taker’s checklist was Ashwin’s modern off-spinning legend, Australia‘s Nathan Lyon. The duo, in actual fact, are the one two spinners to function among the many prime 5 wicket-takers in two of the three WTC cycles.
The 2 greats of the fashionable period will face off within the five-Check collection Down Below for the Border Gavaskar Trophy. However earlier than that, Ashwin has enterprise to do with New Zealand at house in three Assessments starting on Wednesday.
The collective numbers from the three WTC cycles additionally paint an attention-grabbing image, with Lyon, Ashwin and Cummins occupying the highest three spots, respectively. Nevertheless, the place Ashwin is forward of everybody else is within the variety of five-wicket hauls (11), common (20.36) and strike price (44.2).
Prime wicket-takers in WTC (2019-2024)
| Bowler | For | Assessments | Wkts | Avg | Finest | 5WI | 10WM | SR | ER |
| Nathan Lyon | AUS | 43 | 187 | 26.70 | 8/64 | 10 | 3 | 58.0 | 2.75 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | IND | 37 | 185 | 20.36 | 7/71 | 11 | 1 | 44.2 | 2.76 |
| Pat Cummins | AUS | 42 | 175 | 22.81 | 6/91 | 8 | 1 | 46.9 | 2.91 |
| Mitchell Starc | AUS | 38 | 147 | 27.08 | 6/66 | 3 | 0 | 46.8 | 3.46 |
| Stuart Broad | ENG | 33 | 134 | 24.09 | 6/31 | 3 | 1 | 47.5 | 3.04 |
Ashwin is simply three wickets away from surpassing Lyon’s 187 wickets in WTC, and the three Assessments towards the Kiwis on spinning house tracks provide him an opportunity to increase the hole with Lyon by a long way earlier than heading to Australia.
Here is the cycle-wise development of Ashwin for the reason that begin of WTC in 2019.
Prime wicket-takers in WTC 2019-2021
| Bowler | For | Assessments | Wkts | Avg | Finest | 5WI | 10WM | SR | ER |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | IND | 14 | 71 | 20.33 | 7/145 | 4 | 0 | 46.4 | 2.62 |
| Pat Cummins | AUS | 14 | 70 | 21.02 | 5/28 | 1 | 0 | 47.6 | 2.64 |
| Stuart Broad | ENG | 17 | 69 | 20.08 | 6/31 | 2 | 1 | 43.4 | 2.77 |
| Tim Southee | NZ | 11 | 56 | 20.82 | 5/32 | 3 | 0 | 46.2 | 2.70 |
| Nathan Lyon | AUS | 14 | 56 | 31.37 | 6/49 | 4 | 1 | 67.5 | 2.78 |
Prime wicket-takers in WTC 2021-2023
| Bowler | For | Assessments | Wkts | Avg | Finest | 5WI | 10WM | SR | ER |
| Nathan Lyon | AUS | 20 | 88 | 26.12 | 8/64 | 5 | 1 | 60.6 | 2.58 |
| Kagiso Rabada | SA | 13 | 67 | 21.05 | 6/50 | 3 | 0 | 34.8 | 3.63 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | IND | 13 | 61 | 19.67 | 6/91 | 2 | 0 | 47.5 | 2.48 |
| James Anderson | ENG | 15 | 58 | 20.37 | 5/60 | 2 | 0 | 53.7 | 2.27 |
| Pat Cummins | AUS | 16 | 57 | 22.15 | 5/38 | 3 | 0 | 47.5 | 2.79 |
Prime wicket-takers within the WTC 2023-2025 (in progress)
| Bowler | For | Assessments | Wkts | Avg | Finest | 5WI | 10WM | SR | ER |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | IND | 10 | 53 | 21.18 | 7/71 | 5 | 1 | 37.3 | 3.40 |
| Josh Hazlewood | AUS | 11 | 51 | 20.45 | 5/31 | 3 | 0 | 37.5 | 3.26 |
| Pat Cummins | AUS | 12 | 48 | 26.20 | 6/91 | 4 | 1 | 45.2 | 3.47 |
| Mitchell Starc | AUS | 11 | 48 | 28.37 | 5/78 | 1 | 0 | 40.5 | 4.20 |
| Chris Woakes | ENG | 10 | 45 | 20.91 | 5/62 | 1 | 0 | 42.2 | 2.96 |
Ashwin can also be on the verge of overtaking Lyon in profession Check wickets. In 129 Assessments, Lyon has taken 530 wickets, whereas the Indian legend’s numbers at the moment stand at 527 wickets in 102 Assessments.
Here is the comparability:
| Bowler | For | Assessments | Wkts | Avg | Finest | 5WI | 10WM | SR | ER |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | IND | 102 | 527 | 23.65 | 7/59 | 37 | 8 | 50.3 | 2.81 |
| Nathan Lyon | AUS | 129 | 530 | 30.28 | 8/50 | 24 | 5 | 61.8 | 3.93 |
(All Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar)
