Australia vs India 2018-19: Top 5 performers in the Adelaide Test

#3 Ravichandran Ashwin

Ashwin after picking up the final wicket on day 5

Ravichandran Ashwin has been on the firing zone past twelve months or so due to his failure in the overseas tour. But he was good if not great on a somewhat spin-friendly Adelaide pitch.

The Australian batting line-up has six left-handed batsmen so it was obvious that Ashwin will be favourites against them. In the first inning, he picked up the top three left-handers of their batting line-up. Marcus Harris, Usman Khawaja and Shaun Marsh were the victim of some fine bowling from Ashwin.

In the second innings, a lot was expected out of Ashwin as he would bowl on day 4 and day five of the Test match. He pulled off a decent performance for the team. First, he provided the all-important breakthrough by picking up the first Australian wicket of Aaron Finch and then he picked up their no. 3 Usman Khawaja.

Just when India was looking in danger due to the partnership between Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood for the last wicket, Ashwin provided India with the match-winning wicket of Hazlewood. Ashwin picked up 6 wickets in the match and recorded his best ever figure in Australia of 6 for 149.