There was an amazing coincidence in the retirement of Anil Kumble and R Ashwin, both of them made a player named Mitchell their last victim.

Cricket News Desk. R Ashwin suddenly announced his retirement from cricket after the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy Gabba Test match. With Ashwin's retirement, an era came to an end in Indian cricket. Ashwin followed the footsteps of Anil Kumble and announced his retirement.

Actually, some surprising coincidences happened during the retirement of Anil Kumble and Ashwin. There was an amazing coincidence in the retirement of both the bowlers. In fact, in the year 2008, Anil Kumble had also announced his retirement after the third Test match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy was drawn. Like Kumble, Ashwin also retired after the third Test was drawn.

A player named Mitchell became the final victim.
Not only this, Anil Kumble took his last victim in the form of Mitchell Johnson and Ashwin also took his last wicket in the form of Mitchell Marsh. Ashwin took the wicket of Mitchell Marsh in the Adelaide Test. In such a situation, a coincidence of Mitchell's name was also seen in the last wicket of Ashwin and Kumble. Let us tell you that after Anil Kumble, R Ashwin is the bowler who has taken the most wickets in Test cricket.
No place in two test matches

It is noteworthy that R Ashwin was not a part of the playing eleven in the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, but he made a place in the playing eleven in the day-night Test match played in Adelaide. After this, he was once again dropped from the playing eleven in the third match. Thus the Adelaide Test proved to be the last match of Ashwin's Test career.

Third test match affected by rain
Let us tell you that the third test match played between India and Australia at Gabba was a draw. Australia batted brilliantly in the first innings after the first day of the third Test match was washed out by rain. Batting first, Australia scored 445 runs with the help of centuries from Steve Smith and Travis Head. In reply, Team India's first innings collapsed for 260 runs.

After this, Australia declared its second innings at 89/7 and gave India a target of 275 runs. In its second innings on the fifth day, India has scored 8 runs without any loss in 2.1 overs. After this, due to rain we had to take an early tea break. Later the rain intensified and the match had to be declared a draw.