Ravichandran Ashwin      

India

Full name Ravichandran Ashwin

Born September 17, 1986, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu

Current age 29 years 99 days

Major teams India, Chennai Super Kings, Tamil Nadu

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	32	48	10	1204	124	31.68	2026	59.42	2	6	134	10	13	0
ODIs	100	57	18	657	65	16.84	758	86.67	0	1	59	5	30	0
T20Is	28	7	4	66	17*	22.00	62	106.45	0	0	7	1	5	0
First-class	67	93	22	2374	124	33.43	4098	57.93	4	13	311	11	28	0
List A	148	87	25	1153	79	18.59	1452	79.40	0	3	95	11	48	0
Twenty20	164	53	22	387	46	12.48	350	110.57	0	0	36	8	37	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	32	59	9224	4470	176	7/66	12/85	25.39	2.90	52.4	6	16	4
ODIs	100	99	5457	4379	140	4/25	4/25	31.27	4.81	38.9	1	0	0
T20Is	28	28	648	782	29	4/11	4/11	26.96	7.24	22.3	1	0	0
First-class	67	116	17718	8239	310	7/66	12/85	26.57	2.79	57.1	7	27	7
List A	148	147	8025	6094	201	4/25	4/25	30.31	4.55	39.9	1	0	0
Twenty20	164	161	3532	3972	167	4/11	4/11	23.78	6.74	21.1	2	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v West Indies at Delhi, Nov 6-9, 2011 scorecard
Last Test	India v South Africa at Delhi, Dec 3-7, 2015 scorecard
Test statistics	- Statsguru Test analysis - Player analysis menu/filter Test match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Bowling match list Best innings bowling Best match bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
ODI debut	India v Sri Lanka at Harare, Jun 5, 2010 scorecard
Last ODI	India v South Africa at Kanpur, Oct 11, 2015 scorecard
ODI statistics	- Statsguru ODI analysis - Player analysis menu/filter ODI match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Best innings bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
T20I debut	Zimbabwe v India at Harare, Jun 12, 2010 scorecard
Last T20I	India v South Africa at Cuttack, Oct 5, 2015 scorecard
T20I statistics	- Statsguru T20I analysis - Player analysis menu/filter T20I match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Best innings bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
First-class debut	Tamil Nadu v Haryana at Chennai, Dec 9-12, 2006 scorecard
Last First-class	India v South Africa at Delhi, Dec 3-7, 2015 scorecard
List A debut	Andhra v Tamil Nadu at Secunderabad, Feb 10, 2007 scorecard
Last List A	Tamil Nadu v Uttar Pradesh at Bangalore, Dec 24, 2015 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Andhra v Tamil Nadu at Visakhapatnam, Apr 3, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20	India v South Africa at Cuttack, Oct 5, 2015 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
2/27, 7	Tamil Nadu	v U. Pradesh	Bangalore	24 Dec 2015	LA
18*, 0/8	Tamil Nadu	v Rajasthan	Hyderabad	18 Dec 2015	LA
2/28, 36	Tamil Nadu	v Hyderabad	Hyderabad (Deccan)	17 Dec 2015	LA
2/23	Tamil Nadu	v Services	Secunderabad	14 Dec 2015	LA
0, 1/34	Tamil Nadu	v Punjab	Hyderabad	13 Dec 2015	LA
16, 1/42	Tamil Nadu	v Mumbai	Hyderabad	11 Dec 2015	LA
3/31	Tamil Nadu	v Assam	Hyderabad (Deccan)	10 Dec 2015	LA
56, 2/26, 5/61	India	v South Africa	Delhi	3 Dec 2015	Test # 2191
15, 5/32, 7, 7/66	India	v South Africa	Nagpur	25 Nov 2015	Test # 2189
4/70	India	v South Africa	Bangalore	14 Nov 2015	Test # 2188

Profile

R Ashwin is a tall offspinner who took the soduku ball, a finger-flicked tennis-ball legbreak, from the streets of Chennai and used it effectively in international cricket on a bigger, harder cricket ball. His inspiration was Ajantha Mendis' carrom ball. Even before Mendis had played for Sri Lanka and bamboozled India's heavyweight Test line-up in one series, this 21-year-old saw him in a game in Chennai and went home convinced it could be done with a cricket ball too. In his first season of first-class cricket back then, Ashwin put his long fingers to tireless work on that variation. Soon after Mendis had became a brief phenomenon, Ashwin unleashed it.

That carrom ball, an arm ball just as good, his control over his offbreaks, and a sharp brain made Ashwin a quintessential limited-overs spinner, but in Test cricket he followed a brief period of struggle, against England in 2012-13, with a return to classical offspin basics and began using the variations sparingly. Ashwin's success was what India desperately needed at a time when Anil Kumble had retired and Harbhajan Singh was on the wane.

Ashwin is one of the rare players who came into the public's reckoning through the IPL and yet was good enough to hold his own in bigger forms of cricket. For his IPL franchise, he opened the bowling, bowled at death, came on when wickets were required, and was the Man of the Series in the 2010 Champions League played in South Africa.

Ashwin's success in T20 cricket earned him a call-up to the national side, ODI firsts and inevitably the Tests in 2011-12. He was a part of the winning squad in the 2011 World Cup, but rarely got a chance ahead of Harbhajan. The senior offspinner, though, soon provided him with more opportunities and Ashwin kept on building a phenomenal body of work. He took nine wickets in his maiden Test, the second-highest by an Indian debutant after Narendra Hirwani's 16, and won the Man-of-the-Match award. It only got better: he registered nine five-fors in his first 16 Tests and was a genuine threat to Erapalli Prasanna's Indian record of the march to 100 wickets in 20 Tests.

An opener with the bat before he took up offspin, Ashwin is more than a handy lower-order batsman: he is correct, has the shots and scored a century in his first Test series.
Sidharth Monga