{"id":503961,"date":"2024-03-07T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T06:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=503961"},"modified":"2024-03-07T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T06:56:35","slug":"ashwin-100-test-special-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/ashwin-100-test-special-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashwin gets a special memento, guard of honour on his 100th Test match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the HPCA stadium in Dharamshala, seasoned Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is playing in his 100th Test match for India. In addition, the 37-year-old recently became the fastest Indian bowler to take&nbsp;500 Test wickets, shattering the mark held by Anil Kumble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Ravichandran Ashwin took the field for his team in the fifth and final Test match against England&nbsp;in Dharamsala, he became&nbsp;the 14th Indian player to play&nbsp;100 Test matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head coach Rahul Dravid facilitated him with a cap, where the entire team and Ashwin&#8217;s wife Prithi and his daughters joined him to commemorate the momentous occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcaf reasons to celebrate the moment!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> Head Coach Rahul Dravid presents a special memento to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashwinravi99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashwinravi99<\/a> on the occasion of his 100th Test match \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f<br><br>Follow the match \u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OwZ4YNua1o\">https:\/\/t.co\/OwZ4YNua1o<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvENG<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDFCFIRSTBank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IDFCFIRSTBank<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vxvw5jQ1z1\">pic.twitter.com\/vxvw5jQ1z1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1765593632411992135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He addressed\u00a0all\u00a0the Indian players and gave Devdutt Paddikal his debut cap. As the fifth Test against England got underway, the seasoned spinner was also accorded a guard of honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Number 9\u20e39\u20e3 gets ready for his \ud83d\udcafth Test Match! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f<br><br>\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f WATCH \ud83d\udd3d &#8211; Life, Cricket &amp; Beyond ft. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashwinravi99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashwinravi99<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvENG<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDFCFIRSTBank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IDFCFIRSTBank<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1765568113486225551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashwin has become a member of the elite group of players who have represented India in at least 100 Test matches. Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, VVS Laxman, Anil Kumble, Kapil Dev, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, and Cheteshwar Pujara are among those on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since making his debut for India against the West Indies in 2011, the off-spinner has been an important part of the team&#8217;s bowling attack. With an average of 26.5 and a strike rate of 53.9 in 99 Test matches, Ashwin has claimed 507 wickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By taking a fifer in his 100th Test match, Ashwin will have the opportunity to enter the ranks of legendary cricketers&nbsp;like Shane Warne, Anil Kumble, and Muttiah Muralidharan. It is remarkable because Ashwin had claimed his first five-wicket haul in his maiden encounter against the West Indies, and it would be an incredible achievement if he could secure another fifer in his 100th Test match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Ravichandran Ashwin, Jonny Bairstow of England is participating in his 100th Test match for the national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravichandran Ashwin became 14th Indian to play 100 Test matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":503963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,6,110599],"tags":[162234,2130,96886,162233],"yst_prominent_words":[57297,10601,61380,3704,3887,9603,24328,12337,30246,31480,21253,44264],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07122513\/memento1709789098949-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503961"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=503961"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=503961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->