BJP leader Ashwin Patel celebrated his birthday with party workers in Vadodra. He also cut the cake at this moment and shared it with the party workers amid rising COVID cases.
The group also included West Indian batsman Shimron Hetmyer.
Ashwin is an integral part of the Indian Test team but has not played a limited overs match in international cricket since July 2017.
The spinner admitted that his DRS calls were not upto the mark, especially on his return to Indian surfaces after a hard-fought series in Australia.
The International Cricket Council's official social media profile took to Twitter to announce the recipient.
Ravichandran Ashwin said that the qualification to the final of World Test Championship feels like a World Cup for those who have primarily been a part of India's Test team.
Ashwin has now won eight Man-of-the-Series awards in his 10-year career and is only eight wickets short of equalling Harbhajan Singh's 417 Test wickets.
The Indian team players have been living in a bio bubble since August last year when they had gathered in UAE for the 2020 IPL.
Although he remains an integral part of the Indian Test team and is a regular in the Indian Premier League, Ashwin has been out of India's limited overs sides since July 2017.
Trapping Jofra Archer in front of middle, in the second innings in Ahmedabad on Thursday, Ashwin reached the milestone of 400 Test wickets - fourth by an Indian, 16th overall, and sixth by a spinner.
No other batsman has been dismissed more times by Ashwin than Stokes, surpassing Australia's David Warner with 10 dismissals and Alastair Cook with nine.
In the last 100 years, no spinner has ever taken a wicket off the first ball of an innings. It has now happened twice in this very series.
In the Day-Night Test against England, Ashwin teamed up with Axar Patel as the duo bundled out the tourists for just 112 runs.
Ishant Sharma drew first blood after England opted to bat first in Ahmedabad before Axar Patel and R Ashwin picked three wickets between themselves as visitors went 4 down at Tea. Yet, Zak Crawley stood out with his 53-run knock.
Ashwin hit an excellent 106 in India's second innings and took eight wickets with his off-spin in the second Test against England in Chennai.
Axar is also the second Indian left-arm spinner after Dilip Joshi, who took 6 for 103 against Australia in Chennai in 1979, to join the list.
Ashwin scored his fifth Test century on Monday, and subsequently became the first Indian player to score a hundred and take five wickets in an innings of a Test for the third time.
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Mohammed Siraj won everyone's heart with the way he rejoiced on Ashwin's century on Day 3 of India-England 2nd Test.
Ashwin now has 2624 runs in 76 Tests and 391 wickets. Only Kapil Dev has scored more hundreds and taken more wickets than Ashwin.
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