Ravichandran Ashwin took three wickets within the second day of the third Test between India and Australia. Ashwin, who just lately climbed again to the highest of the ICC rankings for Test bowlers after his stellar performances within the first two Tests, took the wickets of Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey and Nathan Lyon on Thursday as India dismissed Australia of their second innings for a rating of 197.

In the method, Ashwin went previous former India captain Kapil Dev within the checklist of highest worldwide wicket takers from the nation. The Day 3 haul took Ashwin’s profession tally to 689 wickets, thus making it two greater than Kapil’s 687. The 36-year-old is now behind solely former spinners Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble within the checklist. While Harbhajan took 707 worldwide wickets, former captain Kumble retired with 953.

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Ashwin as gone previous Kapil’s tally in far lesser Test appearances than the 1983 World Cup successful former India captain. While Kapil performed 356 matches, Ashwin is on his 269th.

Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja’s four-wicket haul within the Australian first innings helped him take his worldwide wicket tally previous 500. He is the seventh Indian bowler to have handed that milestone after Kumble, Harbhajan, Ashwin, Kapil, Zaheer Khan (597) and Javagal Srinath (551). Jadeja presently sits on 503 worldwide wickets in 298 matches.

Internationally, Ashwin is now near Dale Steyn’s file of 699 wickets. He presently sits seventeenth within the checklist of all-time highest worldwide wicket takers, a misplaced that’s headed by Sri Lanka spin legend Muttiah Muralidaran with a whopping 1347 wickets. Late Australia spin nice Shane Warne is second on the checklist with 1001 wickets whereas veteran England quick bowler James Anderson is third with 972. Kumble’s 956 wickets places him fourth on the checklist whereas former Australia quick howler Glenn McGrath squares off the highest 5 with 949 wickets.