5 of the most prolific bowlers in world cricket across all formats so far in 2016

#3 Ravichandran Ashwin

The witty off-spinner from India is constantly doing well across all formats and surely has become the best bowler from the nation. Recently in the Caribbean, he grabbed 17 wickets in 4 Tests as India clinched the series 2-0. He also won his 6^th Man of the Series award of his career and in doing so, became the player with most Man of the Series awards for India.

He also became the number one bowler in Test rankings for a period and is currently number 3 on the list.

Not only Tests, he has been magnificent in the T20s too. He has 23 wickets to his name in the format, second only to Jasprit Bumrah amongst the leading wicket-takers. He registered his career-best figures of 8/4 against Sri Lanka which gave India a series win earlier this year and propelled them to number one in T20I rankings at that time.

India haven’t played too many ODIs this year and hence he has only 2 wickets to his name and a total of 42 across all formats. But he certainly would fancy his chances to bag heaps of wickets as India is to play a number of Test matches at home in the coming months.

Ashwin’s bowling stats so far:

Format	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Average	Economy	Best
Tests	4	7	17	23.17	3.00	83/7
ODIs	2	2	2	64.00	6.74	68/2
T20s	17	17	23	18.82	6.62	8/4