India veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has announced retirement from all forms of international cricket after the third Test match against Australia ended as a draw as rain played spoilsport at Gabba. Ashwin was the part of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 squad where he featured in the pink-ball Test match.
Former Australia wicketkeeper batter Brad Haddin reckons that Ashwin was a bit frustrated with the change as he was changed by Ravindra Jadeja in the Gabba Test.
“More will come out when Ashwin has his opportunity to speak; just reading between the lines, it looked like he may have been a bit frustrated with the spinning options that they’ve changed in the first three Test matches. To me, he was a student of the game (and) always looking at ways to get better … he’s earned the right,” Haddin told Fox Cricket after the end of the Test match.
Ashwin is currently the seventh seventh-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. He picked up 537 wickets in 106 Test outings. The veteran star also scored 3503 runs during his outings in the longest format of the game. The third match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 ended without a result and the last Test match will take place in spin friendly track India will surely miss the services of Ashwin.
Ashwin played 181 white ball matches including 116 ODIs and 65 T20Is. In ODIs he picked up 156 wickets at an average of 33.20, with best figures of 4/25 and in T20Is he took 72 wickets at an average of 23.22. His best figures are 4/8. He also scored 184 runs in 19 innings at an average of 26.28, with best score of 31. He is the sixth-highest wicket-taker for India in T20Is.
With 765 scalps in 287 matches, he is India's second-highest wicket-taker across all formats, next to Kumble (953). He also won the 2011 50-Over World Cup and 2013 Champions Trophy with India.
