2nd Test: Ton-up R Ashwin puts India on brink of win
Updated On: 16 February, 2021 07:24 AM IST | Chennai | R Kaushik
Ravichandran Ashwin’s gritty ton in perhaps his last Test on home ground puts hosts in sight of series-levelling victory against England
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India`s Ravichandran Ashwin celebrates his century on Day Three of the second Test against England at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai yesterday. Pic/BCCI
The ongoing second Test against England is India’s first long-format tussle at the MA Chidambaram Stadium since December 2016, when they bested the same opposition. R Ashwin had a middling outing then, a fluent 67 barely compensating for match figures of 1 for 207.
Given how infrequently Chennai has hosted Tests over the last decade and the profusion of Test centres across the country, it’s possible that this could be the off-spinner’s last five-day game in the city of his birth. Five wickets in an innings on Day Two and a drought-shattering fifth century on Day Three, with the promise of happy hunting on Day Four, isn’t a bad way to wave goodbye.
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