Published: Jul 25, 2016, 09:10 AM (IST)
Edited: Jul 25, 2016, 09:11 AM (IST)
India beat West Indies in the first Test at Antigua by a comprehensive margin and one of the key players who scripted this famous win was Ravichandran Ashwin. The tall off-spinner from Tamil Nadu first scored a brilliant hundred in the first innings of the match to take India to a huge score of 566 after skipper Virat Kohli’s double hundred. ALSO READ: Has Ravichandran Ashwin done enough to be termed ‘genuine all-rounder’ in Tests?
Later, he turned up with the ball in the second innings of the match and took a seven-wicket haul to rip apart the West Indian batting and script a famous Indian win. As a matter of fact, this was India’s biggest win by an innings margin outside Indian subcontinent. In doing so, Ashwin became the first Indian to score a hundred and take a fifer in a Test match twice.
He also became sixth cricketer overall to achieve this feat after Ian Botham, Gary Sobers, Mushtaq Mohammad, Shakib-al-Hasan and Jacques Kallis. He had earlier become third Indian to score a hundred and take a five-wicket haul in Test cricket in 2011. The other two Indians to do so are Vinoo Mankad and Polly Umrigar.
Check what Ashwin had to say after his ‘Player-of-the-Match’ effort:
Here’s a message from @ashwinravi99 after his century and seven-wicket haul in the Antigua Test. #WIvIND pic.twitter.com/BQIncUHuzY
— BCCI (@BCCI) July 24, 2016
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