Dilip Sardesai award for Ashwin

Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has been chosen for the Dilip Sardesai award for becoming the Man of the Series in the recently concluded three-match Test series against the West Indies.

The Indian cricket board announced Monday that the award, comprising a trophy and a cheque for Rs.5 lakh, will be given to Ashwin, Dec 10 in Chennai.

The 25-year-old picked up 22 wickets at an average of 22.90 and scored 121 runs, which included a century in the third and final Test.

He made his Test debut in Delhi, where he picked up a match haul of nine for 128, the second best by an Indian on debut.

Ashwin picked up five for 156 in his third Test in Mumbai and also scored a brisk 103 from 118 balls to become the first Indian since 1962 to take five wickets and score a century in the same match.

He picked up four for 34 in the second innings and finished a wicket short of joining Imran Khan and Ian Botham in the record books for a century and 10 wickets in a match.


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Injured Praveen Kumar out of India's first one-dayer

Cuttack, November 28 (Reuters): Paceman Praveen Kumar has been ruled out of Tuesday's first one-day international against West Indies through injury.

Stand-in captain Virender Sehwag, who will lead the hosts in the five-match series while Mahendra Singh Dhoni is rested, did not disclose Kumar's injury but said he was expected to return for Friday's second game in Visakhapatnam.

"Praveen Kumar has a niggle so he is not available for the first ODI," Sehwag told reporters in Cuttack on Monday. "We expect him to join the squad tomorrow and be fit for the second match."

Kumar, 25, has been battling against a recurring elbow problem which kept him out of India's successful 50-over World Cup campaign earlier this year.

R Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron are the other fast bowlers in the ODI squad.

India, who won the three-match test series between the sides 2-0, also host West Indies in one-dayers in Ahmedabad (December 5), Indore (December 8) and Chennai (December 11).

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