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Rajasthan Royals spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (IPL/BCCI)
Yuzvendra Chahal becomes first Indian to take 300 T20 wickets ahead of Ravichandran Ashwin
Yuzvendra Chahal weaves a web around the batsmen Rajasthan Royals (RR) thrashed Sunrise Hyderabad (SRH) in the fourth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday.
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Chahal, who recently found himself out of the Indian team picture, achieved the feat of reaching 300 T20 wickets.
RR’s Chahal became the first Indian bowler to reach the landmark as he bowled SRH’s expensive buy from the auction with a bamboozling flipper to bowl Harry Brock.
Chahal completed 300 wickets in 265th T20 match.
The leg-spinner has taken a total of 91 wickets in 75 T20 Internationals for India.
Chahal’s RR and India teammate Ravichandran R Ashwin are the second Indians on the list with 287 wickets in T20 cricket. In the case of Indians, Piyush Chawla is at number three with 275 T20 wickets.
Former West Indies bowler Dwayne Bravo is the highest T20 wicket-taker in his name and has taken a total of 615 wickets in 558 T20 matches. Afghanistan And Rashid Khan of Gujarat Titans is second with 530 wickets in 392 T20 matches. Sunil Narine of the West Indies and Kolkata Knight Riders He is at number three with 479 T20 wickets.
RR’s Chahal ended the night with figures of 4/17 from his quota of four overs in the game against SRH. Apart from Brook, Chahal picked up the wickets of Adil Rashid, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mayank Agarwal.
After the end of the match, Chahal was happy with the win but was looking forward to taking a five-for next time.
“Definitely the start we wanted. The way Jos and Jaiswal batted, we knew getting a big score was always going to be difficult. The plan was to go from stump to stump, bowling is my strength. I’m more than Not bothered who I am bowling to. Surely you will see a big celebration when I get five wickets.”
Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson starred with the bat as RR climbed to the top of the Indian Premier League points table as Chahal himself is second in the race for the Purple Cap even though it is early days of the tournament.
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