Top spinners in modern day cricket

3. R. Ashwin

The Indian off-spinner has displaced Harbhajan Singh as India’s primary spinner. He made his Test debut against the West Indies in 2011 and finished with nine wickets in that match and has not looked back since. His statistics augur a very bright future for him. He has 92 wickets in Test cricket in just 16 Test match appearances whereas he has 76 scalps in 54 ODI’s at an economy of 4.77 runs per over.

He struggled briefly in his Test career when he toured England where he was trying to do too much, bowling a lot of variations and digressing in line and length. He made immediate corrections as he returned to home soil with a vengeance.

He is one of the few exponents of the carrom ball in International cricket and keeps adding deliveries to his repertoire. He uses the bowling crease to great effect and thinks on his feet.