India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin surpassed Harbhajan Singh in the wickets tally in Test cricket during the second innings of the first clash against New Zealand in Kanpur. Ashwin achieved the feat after he removed Tom Latham during the second session of the final day.
Latham played an outside off stump delivery onto the woodwork behind him to get dismissed for a well-compiled 52. Ashwin passed Harbhajan's tally of 417 wickets in 103 matches playing more than 20 Tests less than the legendary off spinner.
Talking about the match, the home side handed a target of 284 runs to the Blackcaps on the penultimate day after the middle order chipped in with some valuable runs.
The hosts were struggling at 51/5 when Shreyas Iyer, R Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha and Axar Patel came in for the rescue with the bat.
Iyer and Saha notched up individual fifties during the course as India put 234/7 on the board.
The Indian team then scalped an early wicket in the final session of the play after Ashwin trapped Will Young in front of the stumps for 2 but the visitors resisted well in the morning session of Day 5 as William Somerville and Tom Latham made sure that there were no fall of wickets.
Ashwin is now the third highest wicket-taker in Tests for India and is behind Anil Kumble (619) and Kapil Dev (434) in the list.