Yorkshire: County club Yorkshire on Thursday signed Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for the upcoming County championship.
The 33-year-old Ashwin will be representing Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year and after that he will be taking over the reins of Yorkshire's frontline spinner for the County Championship.
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BREAKING: The Yorkshire County Cricket Club can confirm the acquisition of Indian Test spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for the majority of the 2020 Specsavers County Championship season.#OneRose
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">BREAKING: The Yorkshire County Cricket Club can confirm the acquisition of Indian Test spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for the majority of the 2020 Specsavers County Championship season.#OneRose
— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) January 16, 2020BREAKING: The Yorkshire County Cricket Club can confirm the acquisition of Indian Test spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for the majority of the 2020 Specsavers County Championship season.#OneRose
— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) January 16, 2020
"Headingley has always been a fantastic venue to play at. People speak about the overhead conditions playing a big part so let's hope for plenty of sun," Yorkshire's official website quoted Ashwin as saying.
"I love playing first-class cricket and have enjoyed my two previous spells with Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire. My role will be to score runs and take wickets but it will be a collective effort if we are to win the title," he added.
Before Ashwin, Yorkshire had the services of South Africa's Keshav Maharaj. The Proteas spinner managed to take 38 wickets last year and also registered two half-centuries with the bat in hand.
Ashwin is scheduled to feature in a minimum of eight County Championship fixtures for Yorkshire this season, upon conclusion of his IPL commitments and following a short period of rest at the BCCI's request.
Ashwin has taken 362 wickets in 70 Tests. He is widely regarded as one of the best spinners India has ever produced and is the country's fourth-highest wicket-taker and claimed the most international wickets across all three formats last decade (564).
