R Ashwin, who is considered one of the best spinners across formats, married his childhood friend Prithi Narayanan.
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R Ashwin, who was born on 17th September 1986, is an Indian international cricketer. He has played for India in all three formats. The right-arm off-break spinner plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and he is a popular face in the Indian Premier League also.
He is the fastest Indian bowler to reach the 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350 and 400-wicket mark in Test cricket in terms of the number of innings as well. He came into the limelight in the 2010 Indian Premier League where he played for the Chennai Super Kings and his economical bowling earned him his maiden international call-up in the limited-overs formats in June 2010 as well. He was the highest wicket-taker and player of the tournament of the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa also.
He made his Test debut against West Indies and also became the seventh Indian bowler to take a five-wicket haul on his Test debut as well. He took two five-wicket hauls and scored a century in that series and also won the player of the series award.
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Ashwin continued to taste the success and in a home Test series against Australia in 2013, he took 29 wickets, the most by any Indian bowler in a four-match Test series as well. The same year, he took his 100th Test wicket in his 18th match, becoming the fastest Indian bowler to reach the milestone and the fastest in the world in over 80 years as well.
In 2017, while playing his 45th Test, R Ashwin became the fastest bowler to pick up 250 Test wickets as well, surpassing the veteran like Dennis Lillee, who had achieved the landmark in 48 Tests as well. In October 2019, in his 66th Test match, he became the joint-fastest bowler, along with the legendary Muttiah Muralitharan, to take his 350th Test wicket as well.
Prithi Narayanan is a housewife.
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Yes, they have two daughters named Akhira (born in 2015) and Aadhya (born in 2016).
On 13 November 2011, R Ashwin married his childhood friend Prithi Narayanan. She has completed her B.Tech in Information Technology from SSN College of Engineering.
