Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has recently completed 400 Test wickets. With this achievement, he has also become the highest wicket-taking spinner in the ICC Test Championship. He is followed only by Australian spinner Nathan Lyon. However overall Ashwin holds the third position in the top-5 wicket-taker. In this list, Australian Pacer Pat Cummins is at the top with the highest 70 wickets in 14 Tests. He is followed by England's fast bowler Stuart Broad, who took 69 wickets in 17 matches.
As of now, the England team has been eliminated from the World Test Championship. Team India has almost reached the final. India has taken a 2–1 lead in the 4 Test series against England. Now it will be necessary to win or draw the last match of the series. If the Indian team reaches the final, then Australia will also be out of the race. New Zealand has already reached the final.
In such a situation, Stuart Broad and Pat Cummins will not get a chance, while Ashwin will have a chance to play 2 Tests. Ashwin is only 12 wickets away from becoming the top wicket-taker. In the form he is in, it seems that they will achieve this feat.
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In the 3 Tests of the series against England, Ashwin has taken the maximum 24 wickets. He took 9 wickets in the first Test and 8 wickets in the second match. In the day-night test, Ashwin took 7 wickets in his name. After Ashwin in the series, Axar Patel has taken 18 wickets in 2 Tests and English spinner Jack Leach at number three has taken 16 wickets in 3 matches.