Ravichandran ashwin:

Ravichandran Ashwin as born 17 September 1986 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 India 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 but it was not until the 2010 Indian Premier League that he came into the limelight. 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-ip in the limited over formats. He was the leading wicket-taker and player of the tournament of the 2010 champions League Twenty20 in south africa. He.He was also part off the Indian squad that won the 2011 cricket World Cup later that year he made his Teat debut against West Indies and become 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.

Ashwin continued to successes in the subcontinent but proved to be less effective in other places in a home Test series against Australia in 2013, hr took 29 wickets, the most by any Indian bowler in four- match, becoming the fastest Indian bowler Ito the milestone and the fastest in the world in over 80 years.

Ashwin is the only bowler of recent times apart from Sri Lanka's ajantha mendis to bowl corrom ball with two centuries and five half-centuries in his test career so far, Ashwin has earned the reputation of being a bowling all-rounder He was a recipient of the Arjuna Award in 2014 and the BCCI's international cricketer of the year for the 2012-13 season.