Ravichandran Ashwin

Ravichandran Ashwin

Ashwin at the CEAT Cricket Awards in June 2014
Personal information
Born	(1986-09-17) 17 September 1986 (age 30) Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Nickname	Ash
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm off spin
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	India
Test debut (cap 271)	6 November 2011 v West Indies
Last Test	25 March 2017 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 185)	5 June 2010 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	19 January 2017 v England
ODI shirt no.	99
T20I debut (cap 30)	12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe
Last T20I	1 February 2017 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2006/07–present	Tamil Nadu
2009–2015	Chennai Super Kings (squad no. 99)
2016–present	Rising Pune Supergiants
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 49 105 45 84 Runs scored 1903 674 112 3073 Batting average 32.25 16.43 28.00 33.40 100s/50s 4/10 0/1 0/0 6/17 Top score 124 65 31* 124 Balls bowled 14440 5733 1002 22934 Wickets 275 145 52 409 Bowling average 25.22 32.37 22.19 26.17 5 wickets in innings 25 0 0 36 10 wickets in match 7 0 0 10 Best bowling 7/59 4/25 4/8 7/59 Catches/stumpings 20 30 8 35
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 20 January 2017

Ravichandran Ashwin ( pronunciation ; born 17 September 1986) is an Indian international cricketer. An all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off break, Ashwin plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and the Rising Pune Supergiants in the IPL. He is the fastest Indian bowler to reach the 50-, 100-, 150-, 200-, and 250-wicket mark in Test cricket. In 2016, he became the only Indian after Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar to win the ICC Cricketer of the Year award.

Having achieved little success as an opening batsman at junior-level cricket, Ashwin dropped down the order and turned into an off break bowler. He made his first-class debut for Tamil Nadu in December 2006, and captained the team the following season. But it was not until the 2010 Indian Premier League in which he played for the Chennai Super Kings, that he came into the limelight with his economical bowling and earned his maiden international call-up in the limited-overs formats in June 2010. He was the leading wicket-taker and player of the tournament of the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa. He was also part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Later that year, he made his Test debut against West Indies and became the seventh Indian to take a five-wicket haul on Test debut. He took two five-wicket hauls and scored a century in that series and won the player of the series award.