Ashwin never played against Pakistan in his 106 test match career..!?

Sowmiya Sriram
Ashwin never played against pakistan in his 106 test match career..!?
 Ravichandran Ashwin has achieved a strange feat that no player has done in the 147-year history of cricket. And he has achieved this feat with the pakistan cricket team. Ashwin, who is a great record holder with 537 wickets in Test cricket, recently retired from international cricket at the end of the third match of the Australian Test series. Ashwin also held the record of taking the most wickets for the indian team after Anil Kumble. He was seventh in the list of bowlers who took the most wickets internationally. Ashwin played 106 Test matches. With this, he joined the list of players who have played more than 100 Test matches in the 147-year history of cricket. So far, 78 players have played 100 or more Test matches. In this, Ashwin has achieved a rare feat that no player has done.
That is, Ashwin has achieved the record of becoming the first player to retire without playing a single Test match against pakistan among the players who have played 100 or more matches. Out of the 78 players who have played 100 or more Test matches so far, if you exclude the five Pakistani players, there are a total of 73 players. Of them, 70 players have played at least one Test match against Pakistan. But, despite playing 100 Test matches, there are three players who have not played a single Test match against Pakistan. They are - Ashwin, Pujara and Virat Kohli.Among them, Pujara and virat kohli have not yet announced their retirement from Test cricket. In this situation. Ashwin has achieved the strange feat of becoming the first player to play more than 100 Test matches without playing a single match against the Pakistani team.
The indian team has not played a single bilateral cricket series against the Pakistani team for the last 12 years. That is why Ashwin has achieved this strange feat.
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