R. Ashwin, who began his career as a batsman and is now India's second-most successful Test bowler, began his playing career.

R. Ashwin, happy birthday! The second-most successful Test bowler for India is R Ashwin. In Test cricket, he has taken 442 wickets. He shares the top spot in Test cricket with Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in terms of quickest 350 wickets taken. In addition to this, he holds the second-most Player of the Series victories in Test cricket. When it comes to R Ashwin, who has had such great success as a bowler, it may come as a shock to learn that he began his career as an opener and medium pacer.

Yes, R Ashwin did start matches as the opener when he played cricket in high school. He also used to bowl at a medium-fast tempo in addition to this. He was an all-around quick bowler, in other words. His childhood coach CK Vijay transformed him into a spinner at this time. Ashwin also found that this modification was the appropriate choice. He replaced Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh after initially joining Team India as a spinner, and he is currently setting new Test cricket records one after the other. The team for the next T20 World Cup in Australia also includes R Ashwin.

International cricket has 659 wickets.

On June 5, 2010, R Ashwin played in his first ODI against Sri Lanka. He was given the chance to make his T20 debut just seven days following this. He had to wait almost 1.5 years to make his Test debut, though. In all three forms of cricket, Ashwin has claimed 659 wickets. These include 66 wickets in T20 Internationals, 151 in ODIs, and 442 in Test cricket.

five centuries of testing

Additionally, he has had great success hitting for R Ashwin. He has 5 century and 13 half-centuries in his international career. All of his century have come in Test games. Despite having a 32.20 run average in T20 international cricket. In addition to his other cricketing accomplishments, Ashwin became the first bowler to record 50 wickets for India in T20 international play.

Jimmy Neesham’s humorous response was, “You do well for New Zealand, but not in IPL.”