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'Ash Anna hamesha Chowkanna' - Fans shower love on R Ashwin as he takes six-for in first innings of 4th Test against Australia

Ashwin bowled 47.2 overs in this match. During this, he bowled 15 maiden overs and took 6 wickets for 91 runs.

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R Ashwin after taking 36th Test fifer (Source - Twitter)

R Ashwin after taking 36th Test fifer (Source - Twitter)

Team India's star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, once again, showed the ability of his brilliant bowling in the 4th and final Test of the series which is being played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Aswhin showed the way to the pavilion to more than half of the Australian batters on a pitch where all the Indian bowlers looked ineffective.

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He also completed his 32nd five-wicket haul in the match. The right-arm spinner also helped the Indian team to get the first breakthrough. Ashwin bowled 47.2 overs in this match. During this, he bowled 15 maiden overs and took 6 wickets for 91 runs with an economy rate of 1.92.

Many big Australian batters fell pray to the Indian spinner. Ashwin has taken a fifer for the 26th time on Indian soil. Ashwin got his first wicket of Travis Head when he got caught out by Jadeja for 32 runs.

Post that, he dismissed Cameron Green on the score of 114 runs. Ashwin got the third wicket by dismissing Alex Carey (0). His fourth victim was Mitchell Starc. He completed his 5-wicket haul by dismissing Todd Murphy for 41 runs. After this, Ashwin took the last wicket of Nathan Lyon (34).

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India will look get a huge in their first innings

Talking about the entire second day, Australia started the day with 255 runs for 4 wickets and scored 480 runs in 167.2 overs at the end of their first innings and displayed a brilliant batting display. Meanwhile, the Indian team were asked to face the last 10 overs of the day and they successfully survived it and ended the day on the score of 36 runs without any loss.

Rohit Sharma 17* and Shubman Gill 18* will look to get a huge score, tomorrow. It is important for India to win the match in order to qualify for the Test championship final. If the match ends up in a draw then the Indian team will depend on New Zealand vs Sri Lanka Test series results.

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Here’s how the fans reacted to Ashwin's sensational performance:

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