NEW DELHI Star incentive Ravichandran Ashwin on Wednesday achieved a unique feat in his outstanding Test career when he came the first Indian and only the fifth bowler in world justice to dismiss both the father and son in Test matches during the opening day of the first Test against West Indies in Roseau, Dominica.
Ashwin, who made his Test debut in 2011, had preliminarily dismissed Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s father, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, during Ashwin’s maiden appearance in Test justice.
In a Test match 12 times agone , Ashwin trapped Shivnarine Chanderpaul in front of the lattices in the alternate innings.
Ashwin, who had 474 Test lattices before this match, sailed a brilliant delivery to dismiss Tagenarine Chanderpaul.
Interestingly, the Chanderpauls feature three times in this unique list, as both Shivnarine and Tagenarine were dismissed by Ashwin, while Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc and South African off- incentive Simon Harmer are the other two bowlers who have fulfilled this feat against the Chanderpauls.
The moment Ravi Ashwin created history!
The first Indian to pick the wicket of father (Shivnarine) and son (Tagenarine) in Tests. pic.twitter.com/nvqXhLz0ze
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) July 12, 2023
This achievement highlights Ashwin’s skill and thickness as a bowler in Test justice and adds another noteworthy accomplishment to his formerly emotional Test career.
May be it has got to do with Chanderpaul senior’s life as he retired as late as 2015, while his son made his debut in Tests last time.
The other two bowlers to achieve the feat are England each-rounder Ian Botham and Pakistan legend Wasim Akram.
Their feat was also eerily analogous as they dismissed the New Zealand father son brace of Lance and Chris Cairns.
Going into lunch on Day 1 of the opening Test, Ashwin had formerly picked up 699 transnational lattices across formats with 476 of them coming in Tests.
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