R Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow© BCCI/Sportzpics
Take a look at cricket will see two gamers that includes of their a centesimal recreation collectively for less than the fourth time when India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and England batter Jonny Bairstow take the sphere right here on Thursday. The primary such event was when former England captain Michael Atherton and Alec Stewart reached the landmark in opposition to the West Indies at Previous Trafford again in 2000. The second occasion concerned three gamers as South Africa’s Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock and Stephen Fleming performed their a centesimal Take a look at within the South Africa-New Zealand recreation in Centurion in 2006.
The third was Alastair Cook dinner and Michael Clarke within the England-Australia Ashes contest in Perth in 2013.
Ashwin and Bairstow will probably be representing their respective groups within the fifth and last Take a look at from Thursday.
It’ll additionally mark solely the second event when two gamers from the opposing groups will probably be enjoying their a centesimal Take a look at in the identical recreation.
Only a day after the India-England recreation begins, New Zealand captain Tim Southee and his predecessor Kane Williamson will play their a centesimal Take a look at collectively in the course of the second match in opposition to Australia.
Ashwin, who just lately turned solely the second Indian after Anil Kumble to cross 500 wickets within the recreation’s longest format, made his Take a look at debut in 2011 and has loved extra highs than lows throughout a 13-year journey.
On this hill city, the 34-year-old Bairstow will turn into the seventeenth Englishman to get a a centesimal Take a look at cap, having made his debut in 2012.
India have already secured an unbeatable 3-1 lead within the ongoing sequence.
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