Virender Sehwag congratulates 'RecordChandran Ashwin'

Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag and his tweets have become a dose of humor for quite a few of his followers these days. Sehwag today congratulated Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin as he became the second fastest bowler to 200 Test wickets.

Former Australian leg-spinner, Clarrie Grimmett leads the chart, having achieved the milestone in his 36th Test match. Sehwag renamed Ravi Ashwin as ‘RecordChandran Ashwin’, he wrote on the microblogging site, Twitter. “RecordChandran Ashwin. Well done on the first set of 200 wickets. Surely many more sets to go
@ashwinravi99,” he wrote.

On Day 4 of the first Test match between India and New Zealand, Ashwin trapped the opposition skipper, Kane Williamson in front of the wicket, in the 18th over of the innings to get to the mark.

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Ashwin was the one who claimed Williamson’s wicket in the first innings as well. He bagged a total of 10 wickets in the match with bowling figures of 4 for 93 and 6 for 132 in the two innings respectively.

Earlier, Sehwag wished former Indian left-arm spinner Bishan Singh Bedi on his birthday and Bedi made a clarification on his wish. Sehwag wrote – “Hpy Bdy to a man who did not bowl,but did poetry instead.A man who cheated batsmen with a cherry in hand @BishanBedi”.

Though Viru mentioned cheating in a light-hearted sense, the legendary spinner thanked and clarified his stand saying that he might have deceived batsmen in air or off the wicket, but have never ‘cheated’ on the cricket ground.

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“@virendersehwag Thx Veeru..but just to clarify..I might’ve deceived batsmen in air or off wkt..but I never ‘cheated’ on Crkt ground..Cheers!,” Bedi’s reply reads.