Ravichandran Ashwin Fastest Indian To Claim 100 Test Wickets

 

Ravichandran Ashwin has become the fastest Indian bowler to take 100 Test wickets. The landmark came for Ashwin as he dismissed the West Indies captain Darren Sammy for a duck caught by Rohit Sharma. The record came Ashwin’s way during the first day of the second Test match against West Indies at Mumbai.

R Ashwin, who has had an all-round show in the series so far, reached the landmark in this 18th Test match. The performance in the first match had taken him to the number one Test all rounder spot. Before this, the record was in the name of former bowler Erapalli Prasanna. Prasanna had reached the 100 Test wickets in 20 matches.

The efforts put Ashwin in the fifth spot of the all time record of reaching the 100 wickets in Tests in the least number of matches. And there’s a very amusing observation in regard of this record. After the Second World War, Ashwin is the only player to have reached the century of Test wickets in less than 20 matches. He is actually the fastest to 100 Test wickets in over 80 years.

The fastest to reach 100 Test wickets was G A Lohmann from England. His 100th Test wicket came against South Africa at Johannesburg way way back in 1896. That was his 16th match of his career and he took nine years and 241 days.

Australia’s C Turner came second in the list after playing 17 Tests. The record came against England in Sydney. He required eight years and four days to set the record.

Englishman S Barnes also needed 17 Tests to be the third in the list. He achieved this feat playing against Australia. He was the slowest of them with 10 years and 72 days.

After the Aussie C V Grimmett, who is in the fourth place, comes in R Ashwin in the list. Ashwin is the fastest to reach 100 Test wickets in just two years and eight days. However, Kapil Dev is the fastest in terms of time to reach the landmark. He needed just one year and 105 days and the record materialized in his 25th Test match.

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