Born on September 17, 1986, Ravichandran Ashwin is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm off break bowler. He plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and the Chennai Super Kings in Indian Premier League. He is the fastest Indian bowler to reach the 50- and 100-wicket mark in Test cricket.Having achieved little success as an opening batsman at junior-level cricket, Ashwin dropped down the order and turned into an off break bowler. He made his first-class debut for Tamil Nadu in December 2006.Playing for the Chennai Super Kings, he impressed with his economical bowling in the tournament, in which he was used to open the bowling on several occasions, and earned his maiden international call-up in the limited-overs formats. He was the leading wicket-taker and player of the tournament of the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa. He was also part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Later that year, he made his Test debut against West Indies and became the seventh Indian to take a five-wicket haul on Test debut. He took two five-wicket hauls and scored a century in that series and won the player of the series award. In a home Test series against Australia in 2013, he took 29 wickets, the most by any Indian bowler in a four-match Test series. The same year, he took his 100th Test wicket in his 18th match, becoming the fastest Indian bowler to the milestone and the fastest in the world in over 80 years. On 6th November, 2015 he became fastest Indian to 150 wickets as well during his 5 wicket haul against South Africa in Mohali.
Identify the Player:
Write a brief description about him in 250 words.
Questions of this week:
1. Who top scored for India against South Africa in the 1st innings of 2nd Test match of the ongoing series?
2. For which team Taruwar Kohli played in IPL-8?
3. Who won title in the ongoing Jammu District Junior Billiards Championship?
4. Who scored century in the 2nd innings of J&K’s 4-day match of CK Nayudu Under-23 Cricket Trophy against Hyderabad at Hyderabad recently?
5. Who is Iqbal Shah?
Answers of the last week:
1. Murali Vijay 2.Mumbai Indians 3. Akash Wasim 4. Sahil Lotra 5. J&K’s former Ranji Trophy Cricketer.
The best entry of this week was received from Satwant Singh, Digiana, Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from Sanjay Dhar, Lane No 1, H No-3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal Jammu; Anil Andotra, Subash Nagar, Jammu; Raj Kumar, Krishna Nagar, Jammu; Sunil Singh Jasrotia, Vijaypur, Samba and Satish Kumar, New Plots, Jammu.
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