Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin won the CEAT cricket award for top international cricketer of the year. R. Ashwin is India’s leading spin bowler born on 17 September 1986 Ashwin is an all-round performer for our country as he bowls and bats both for India.

Being an all-round performer Ashwin is the fastest Indian bowler to reach the 50-, 100-, 150-, 200-, 250 and 300-wicket mark in Test cricket. Ravichandran Ashwin is third Indian to win ICC Cricketer of the year award.
Some of his personal achievements;

• Arjuna Award, 2014
• ICC Test Team of the Year: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
• BCCI's Dilip Sardesai Award for India's best cricketer, 2010-11, 2015–16
  
• BCCI's Polly Umrigar Award for International cricketer of the year, 2012–13
  
• ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2016 ICC Cricketer of the Year 2016
  
• CEAT International Cricketer of the Year: 2016–17