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India vs England: 'Man-of-the-Series' Ravichandran Ashwin Wins the Numbers' Game

After being adjudged the man of the series for 32 wickets and 192 runs (which included a century at his homeground Chennai) Ashwin became the only Indian to take more than 30 wickets twice in a series.

India vs England: 'Man-of-the-Series' Ravichandran Ashwin Wins the Numbers' Game

India might have made it to the WTC final but it wouldn’t have been possible without this man: Ravichandran Ashwin. After being adjudged the man of the series for 32 wickets and 192 runs (which included a century at his homeground Chennai) Ashwin became the only Indian to take more than 30 wickets twice in a series. He accounted for 31 wickets in 2015 against South Africa. He also picked his 30th Test fifer at the Narendra Modi Stadium as he accounted for: Zak Crawley, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Dan Lawrence and Jack Leach.

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With this feat, he equaled James Anderson’s record and inched closer to Anil Kumble’s 35 fifer in Test cricket. Besides this, his all-round show (192 runs and 32 wickets) also propelled him into an elusive club full of the likes of Imran Khan, Ian Botham, Richie Benaud and George Giffen. These are the only cricketers who had registered a double of picking 30 wickets and scoring a hundred runs in a series.

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The writing was on the wall for England after Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar put together that magnificent 113-run stand for the seventh-wicket changing the match on its head on Day 2 for India. But no one quite expected the visitors to capitulate so quickly on Day 3. England were once again tormented by the Indian spinners and bowled out for their 6th below-200 total in eight innings in the series to hand India a massive series win by an innings and 25 runs and with it a place alongside New Zealand in the final of the World Test Championship at Lords in June this year.

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Partnerships win matches – that old cricketing adage could not have been more true than with respect to India in the fourth and final Test in Ahmedabad. Two partnerships defined the match for India. Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar came together at 146 for 6 with the hosts in serious trouble and put together a match-defining stand for the seventh-wicket. After taking a massive lead of 160 in the first innings, the spin wizards from India – R Ashwin and Axar Patel ran through the England batting line-up routing them for a paltry 135.

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RankTeamPointsRating
1 Australia 3028 116
2 New Zealand 2406 115
3 India 3085 114
4 England 4326 106
5 Sri Lanka 2454 91
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1 England 5405 123
2 India 6102 117
3 New Zealand 3716 116
4 Australia 4344 111
5 South Africa 3345 108
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1 England 6877 275
2 Australia 6800 272
3 India 10186 268
4 Pakistan 7516 259
5 South Africa 5047 252
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