Vinay Kumar
New Delhi. Indian team’s experienced super lethal spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin off-spinner Team India created history in the second Test match of the series being played in Johannesburg.
In the second innings of South Africa (South Africa vs India Johannesburg Test Match, 2022), as soon as Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed South African batsman Keegan Petersen LBW in the movement of his spin ball, his name was one. History has been recorded. Ashwin is the second spin bowler of the Indian team in the history of Test cricket, whose name now holds the record of taking wickets at the Wanderers ground in Johannesburg.
The history of Test cricket testifies to the fact that in Johannesburg South Africa vs India Test Match, India’s great spin bowler Anil Kumble took 17 wickets. Now on the same ground Ravichandran Ashwin opened the account of taking wickets on this ground. Records show that, Shadab Khan of Pakistan was the last spin bowler to get a wicket before Ravichandran Ashwin at this ground in Johannesburg. About 3 years ago today, in the tour of South Africa in Pakistan in January 2019 (South Africa vs Pakistan Test Match Johannesburg, 2019 Shadab Khan), in January, Pakistan spin bowler Shadab took the wicket of the South Africa team.
After 2006, in 2022, an Indian spinner took a wicket in this ground.
About 16 years ago today, in the year 2006, the great spin bowler of the Indian team, Anil Kumble, took the wicket of spinner for the last time at the Wanderers ground in Johannesburg. In that historic Test match (South Africa vs India Test Match, 2006), Kumble took a total of 5 wickets. He showed the way to the pavilion to 3 players in the bowling of the first innings and the second innings. The special thing is that in that match, India defeated South Africa by 123 runs.
Kapil Dev’s record may be broken
It is worth noting that Ravichandran Ashwin has a golden opportunity to break the record of great India captain ‘Haryana Hurricane’ Kapil Dev in this match. The history of Test cricket tells that Kapil Dev, the former captain of the Indian team, has taken 434 wickets in Test cricket. Ravichandran Ashwin has come very close to this record. The number of wickets of Ravichandran Ashwin in Test cricket has been 428. Just 7 wickets are needed to break Kapil Dev’s record.