India are all set to take on New Zealand in a three-match Test Series from October 16. This will be a crucial series for India as a whitewash could see them through to the final of the World Test Championship 2025 for the third time in a row. One of the crucial players for India in this series will be Ravichandran Ashwin. The legendary off-spinner had a remarkable series against Bangladesh, where he won the Player of the Series award. He has the chance to create history and go to the top of an elite list as the series commences.
Ravichandran Ashwin Needs 3 Wickets To Create History
Ravichandran Ashwin currently has 185 wickets in the history of the World Test Championship. If he takes three more wickets in the series, he will take his tally to 188. He will thus overtake Nathan Lyon of Australia to become the leading wicket-taker in the history of the WTC.
Here are the highest wicket-takers in the history of the WTC
Nathan Lyon (Australia) – 187
Ravichandran Ashwin (India) – 185
Pat Cummins (Australia) – 175
Mitchell Starc (Australia) – 147
Stuart Broad (England) – 134
If Ravichandran Ashwin takes 15 more wickets in the three-match series against New Zealand, then he will become the first bowler ever to pick up 200 wickets in the history of the World Test Championship.
Ashwin shined with both bat and ball in the series against Bangladesh. He finished as the joint-highest wicket-taker with 11 scalps. He also scored a match-winning hundred in the first game.
India Squad For Three-Match Series Vs New Zealand:
Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep
Travelling Reserves: Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mayank Yadav and Prasidh Krishna