It was a large event for veteran Indian cricket staff spinner Ravichandran Ashwin as he performed his one hundredth Take a look at match as India took on England within the ultimate sport of the five-match collection in Dharamsala on Thursday. Ashwin just lately turned the second India bowler ever to take 500 wickets within the longest format of the game and as he took the sphere for his one hundredth Take a look at, he made historical past by turning into the oldest India cricketer to realize the milestone. Total, Ashwin turned the 14th India cricketer to play 100 Exams however the first one to do it after celebrating their thirty seventh birthday. The others have been – Sunil Gavaskar (125), Dilip Vengsarkar (116), Kapil Dev (131), Sachin Tendulkar (200), Anil Kumble (132), Rahul Dravid (164), Sourav Ganguly (113), VVS Laxman (134), Harbhajan Singh (103), Virender Sehwag (104), Ishant Sharma (105), Virat Kohli (113) and Cheteshwar Pujara (103).
Total, Ashwin was the sixth oldest cricketer to play his one hundredth Take a look at match after Geoffrey Boycott (40y, 254d), Clive Lloyd (39y, 241d), Graham Gooch (39y, 190d), Gordon Greenidge (38y, 346d) and Younis Khan (37y, 208d).
Kuldeep Yadav took 5 wickets to bundle out England for 218, with India’s batsmen beginning strongly on a dominant opening day for the hosts within the fifth Take a look at on Thursday.
Yadav returned figures of 5-72 and, together with fellow spinner Ravichandran Ashwin who took 4 wickets in his landmark one hundredth Take a look at, bowled out the vacationers in simply 57.4 overs on the picturesque Dharamsala stadium.
India reached 135-1 at stumps, nonetheless trailing England by 83 runs.
Skipper Rohit Sharma, on 52, and Shubman Gill, on 26, have been batting on the shut of play after in-form Yashasvi Jaiswal fell for 57.
The left-handed Jaiswal appeared assured till his departure as he smashed spinner Shoaib Bashir for 3 sixes in an over, and consolidated his place on the high of the collection batting with 712 runs.
Bashir, a rookie off-spinner, obtained Jaiswal stumped to finish a 104-run opening stand.
Jaiswal, 22, went previous 1,000 runs in simply his sixteenth Take a look at innings since his debut final yr, turning into the second-quickest Indian to the mark after former batsman Vinod Kambli (14 innings).
(With AFP inputs)
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