Ashwin broke the information of many legends. (Photograph: PTI)

India’s veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin scored a superb century on the primary day of the Chennai Take a look at. By the top of the primary day’s play, he returned unbeaten on 102 runs. With this century, he not solely rescued Workforce India from a troublesome scenario but in addition broke many information. He equaled the variety of centuries scored by former Indian staff captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Assessments. He additionally left behind Ravi Shastri, Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh when it comes to hitting sixes in Assessments. Not solely this, within the present Pakistan cricket staff, solely Babar Azam is forward of him when it comes to Take a look at centuries.

Ashwin got here forward of many giants

When Ashwin got here to bat on the primary day of the Take a look at match in opposition to Bangladesh, 6 batsmen of Workforce India had been out. Rohit, Virat, Shubman, Pant, Jaiswal and Rahul’s wickets fell at a rating of simply 144. On this troublesome scenario, batting at quantity 8, he scored the sixth century of his Take a look at profession. With this, he equaled Dhoni’s centuries in Assessments. Dhoni has additionally scored 6 centuries in his Take a look at profession.

Ashwin hit 10 fours and a pair of sixes in his 102 run innings on the primary day. He now has a complete of 23 sixes in his title in Assessments. With this, he has left behind India’s legendary batsmen Yuvraj Singh and Rahul Dravid in hitting sixes in Assessments. Ashwin has additionally gone forward of Ravi Shastri and Cheteshwar Pujara in hitting sixes in Assessments. Yuvraj has hit 22 sixes in his Take a look at profession, Dravid 21, Ravi Shastri 22 and Pujara 16 sixes.