During the second Test match at the Green Park in Kanpur, when the 37-year-old trapped Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto in front of the stumps for an lbw, it was his 420th wicket in Asia in Test cricket, going past former India captain and head coach Anil Kumble, and only Sri Lankan great Muttiah Muralitharan is ahead of him in the list of most Test wickets in Asia. Before arriving to play the Kanpur Test, Ravichandran Ashwin was in sensational form with both bat and ball, playing a key role in a 280-run win for India against Bangladesh in hometown of Chennai in the first Test. He had scored his sixth Test hundred in India's first inning before taking six-wicket haul in the second innings of Bangladesh, for which he was adjudicated as the player of the match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.