4,4,4,4,4,4… Ashwin left bowling and became a batsman, took this team’s deadly bowlers to task, scored a stormy century in just so many balls

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|17-09-2024

Ravichandran Ashwin: Ravichandran Ashwin, who played his 100th match for Team India in the year 2024. As an off-spinner, Ravichandran Ashwin has taken the most wickets in the history of Team India. Ravichandran Ashwin has 516 wickets in Test cricket.

Today we are going to tell you about the match winning performance of Ravichandran Ashwin in bowling for Team India and the match winning innings played by him for Team India while batting. In which he batted in a stormy style and thrashed the deadly bowlers of the opposing team and completed his stormy century in just a few balls.

Ravichandran Ashwin hit a stormy century in the year 2013

Ravichandran Ashwin

In 2013, the West Indies team came to India to play 2 Test matches for Sachin Tendulkar's retirement series.

In the first match against West Indies, while batting at one point, Team India lost 6 wickets for a team score of just 156.

After which Ravichandran Ashwin, along with the current captain of Team India, Rohit Sharma, took charge of Team India's innings and played an innings of 124 runs while thrashing the Windies bowlers. Due to this innings of Ravichandran Ashwin, Team India scored 453 runs in the first innings. Talking about Ravichandran Ashwin's century, he completed his century in 159 balls by hitting 11 fours in his innings.

Ravichandran Ashwin

Ashwin's statistics as a batsman are also excellent

Ravichandran Ashwin has played 100 matches for Team India in Test cricket. In these 100 matches, Ravichandran Ashwin has scored 3309 runs as a batsman, batting at an average of 26.26. Ravichandran Ashwin has played 14 half-centuries and 5 centuries for Team India during this period. Talking about Ravichandran Ashwin's best high score of 124 in Test cricket during this period, he made it at the Eden Gardens ground while playing against West Indies in 2013.

Ashwin will have a big responsibility in the Bangladesh series

Team India has to play a 2 Test match series against Bangladesh from 19 September. For which the selection committee has announced the 16-member team squad of Team India for the first Test match. Ravichandran Ashwin will be seen handling the responsibility of the spin department for Team India in the first match to be played at the Chennai ground.

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