Ashwin retires: Here is a look at India off-spinner's outstanding cricket records as he announced international retirement at the end of the third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test against Australia in Gabba on Wednesday.

Knee issue, not being sure starter overseas and emergence of Washington Sundar as an option made Ravichandran Ashwin revisit 'retirement' which he had first mulled 18 months ago.

Mohammed Shami had recently travelled to Bengaluru for a fitness test.

Ashwin, who made his Test debut in November 2011, sat next to Rohit Sharma at the post-match press conference and made the announcement that he was ending his international career.

R Ashwin stands at seventh-highest wicket taker in Test cricket history till present.

Indian cricketer R Ashwin retired after the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

On Day 5 as rain again interrupted play, the camera panned to the Indian dressing room where R Ashwin and Virat Kohli were having an emotional conversation. At the end of it, Kohli reached out and hugged Ashwin.

Having taken one wicket in the second Test at Adelaide, Ashwin did not feature in the third Test with India preferring Ravindra Jadeja

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Indian off-spinner Ashwin had taken 75 wickets in 12 Test matches against Australia while playing in India in his career

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Hailing Ashwin's evolution as a master craftsman with the ball over 14 years, Tendulkar took to social media to celebrate the Tamil Nadu stalwart's career.

On Wednesday morning, Ashwin shocked everyone when he announced that he was retiring immediately as an Indian player from all formats with captain Rohit Sharma confirming that the allrounder will take no further part in the 4th and 5th Tests against Australia.

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The 38-year-old Ashwin recollected memories of his first tour to Australia before stressing upon the inevitable transition in an emotional dressing-room speech with his India teammates in Brisbane on Wednesday.

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Like Rohit Sharma recalled, Ravichandran Ashwin started off as batsman but turned to off-spin because of a dearth of spinners in Chennai.

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