KANPUR: India spinner
Ravichandran Ashwin on Monday surpassed
Harbhajan Singh to become the country’s third highest wicket-taker in Test cricket.
Ashwin scalped the wicket of
Tom Latham (52) on the ongoing Day 5 of the first Test against New Zealand to achieve the feat.
The off-spinner had equalled Harbhajan’s tally of 417 wickets on Sunday after he dismissed
Will Young on Day 4.
Ashwin has so far taken 30 five-wicket hauls in his career.
In the first innings of the ongoing Test, Ashwin had taken three wickets while
Axar Patel took five.