Ravichandran Ashwin On Verge Of Surpassing Anil Kumble To Achieve Sensational Test Record | Cricket News

Ravichandran Ashwin is on the verge of surpassing legendary Indian cricket crew spinner Anil Kumble to assert a sensational document within the third Test match towards England in Rajkot beginning Thursday. The veteran cricketer is simply 5 wickets away from turning into the Indian bowler with the best Test wickets at residence. Kumble presently holds the document with 350 wickets from 63 matches whereas Ashwin has taken 346 wickets from 57 matches. Overall, Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan holds the document with 493 wickets from 73 matches with the assistance of 45 five-wicket hauls and 15 ten-wicket hauls.

Meanwhile, Ashwin is only one wicket away from claiming 500 wickets in Test cricket and three wickets away from turning into the primary Indian ever to take 100 wickets in Tests towards England.

An injury-hit India might nicely go into the third Test towards England with two debutants in home run-machine Sarfaraz Khan and hard-hitting keeper-batter Dhruv Chand Jurel on a observe that will probably be fairly much like the primary two Test matches.

However final match’s centurion Shubman Gill nevertheless didn’t attend the non-compulsory coaching on Tuesday.

It have to be famous that Gill had damage his proper index finger whereas fielding within the second Test in Visakhapatnam. He did not area in the course of the England second innings and in addition mentioned that the damage is not too severe.

With Shreyas Iyer being dropped and KL Rahul but to get well, doorways have opened for Sarfaraz, who has been some of the prolific performers in Ranji Trophy.

In case of Jurel, it’s his superior batting high quality that might get him the nod forward of Kona Bharat, who has failed to attain a single half-century in seven successive Tests.

With Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz and Jurel batting between No 4 to 7, three of the 4 center order gamers (different being Ravindra Jadeja) will go into the Test match with a collective expertise of solitary sport. Patidar made his debut in Visakhapatnam.

(With PTI inputs)