Top 5 Cricketers of the week: December 6-13

#3 Ravichandran Ashwin

Ashwin bagged two 6-wicket hauls to add to his impressive number of 5-wicket hauls in Test cricket

Ashwin made up for his rare failure with the bat by a stupendous performance with the ball, which is now becoming almost a given in any match played in India. Ashwin bagged two 6-wicket hauls to add to his impressive number of 5-wicket hauls in Test cricket.

In the first innings, Ashwin picked up 5 of the 7 top-order batsmen to return figures of 6-112 in 44 overs. In the second innings, Ashwin managed figures of 6-55 in 20.3 overs accounting for England’s middle and lower order.

The Tamil Nadu bowler registered the second-best match figures at Wankhede, 12-167, only next to Ian Botham’s 13-106 in 1980.