Ravichandran Ashwin gave cricket-crazy India the perfect Christmas gift when he finished off the nerve-wrecking chase against Bangladesh in style – hitting a flurry of boundaries against Mehidy Hasan Miraz. At 74/7, chasing a modest target of 145, India stared at a shock defeat before Ashwin joined Shreyas Iyer to register a memorable victory in Mirpur. Ashwin’s second inning heroics in the Mirpur Test overshadowed a significant milestone he achieved in the first innings. Ashwin had completed 3,000 Test runs when he hit Bangladesh captain Shakib al Hasan for a four in the third session of day two. After his Player of the Match performance, social media was flooded with posts comparing him to Kapil Dev, arguably India’s greatest all-rounder. The comparisons, however, were not without a reason. Ashwin had become only the second Indian after Dev to complete a Test double of 3,000 runs and 400 wickets. Only four other cricketers – Sir Richard Hadlee, the late Shane Warne, Shaun Pollock, and Stuart Broad – have completed this feat so far. Moreover, Ashwin (88 …