Ashwin retires, a big blow to Team India during the India vs Australia series

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The series between India and Australia is currently being played. The third match has been played and two matches are still left in the series. Meanwhile, a big and important news is coming out. Ravichandran Ashwin, one of the star players of Team India, has suddenly announced his retirement. Ashwin has contributed a lot to many big victories of Team India. Ashwin’s retirement is the end of an era. He has been a witness to many big victories of India. He has spent many moments with the team. Captain Rohit Sharma also looked very emotional on Ashwin’s retirement.

Ashwin will no longer play international matches

The special thing is that when the India vs Australia match was going on, the news started coming out that as soon as the match ends today, Ravichandran Ashwin will retire. As soon as the match was declared a draw. Shortly after, Ashwin came with his captain Rohit Sharma and announced his retirement. Now he will not play any international match. But it is expected that he will remain with the team in the remaining two test matches as well. Ashwin has announced his retirement with a heavy heart. However, he will still be seen playing in the IPL. 

Ashwin’s international career has been like this

Talking about Ashwin’s career, he has played 106 Test matches for India. During this time, he has taken 537 wickets. He has also done the feat of taking 5 wickets 37 times and 10 wickets 8 times in his career. His Test career economy has been 2.83, if we talk about the average, it has been 24. At the same time, he has taken 156 wickets by playing 116 ODI matches for India. Ashwin’s economy in ODIs has been 4.93. He has taken 72 wickets by playing 65 T20 International matches for India. However, for the last few times, Ashwin was playing only Tests. He is away from Team India in ODIs and T20 Internationals. 

Ashwin’s best records 

Talking about Ashwin’s excellent record, he has won the Player of the Series award 11 times, which is the most by any player. That is, even today no one has won more Player of the Series awards than him. He is currently at number 7 in the list of bowlers who have taken the most wickets in Test cricket. But if we talk about active players, Ashwin comes first there. He has taken 5 wickets in an innings 37 times. He comes second in this list.