Seam bowling all-rounder Hardik Pandya has develop into the third Indian bowler to say 100 wickets in males’s T20I, a landmark he achieved in the course of the third T20I towards South Africa on the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala on Sunday.
Earlier than Sunday’s sport, Pandya had 99 wickets from 122 matches at a mean of 26.81 and an economic system price of 8.24. His greatest figures in T20Is are 4-16, coming towards New Zealand in Ahmedabad in 2023, after making his debut within the format towards Australia in Adelaide in January 2016.
At Dharamsala, Pandya reached the milestone of 100 wickets by dismissing Tristan Stubbs within the seventh over. Stubbs tried to information a back-of-a-length supply pitched exterior off stump from Pandya in direction of third man, however solely managed to nick behind to wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma.
With this, Pandya has adopted pacers Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah into getting into the 100-wicket membership in males’s T20Is. Bumrah, who’s unavailable for the continuing sport in Dharamsala attributable to private causes, had achieved the feat earlier within the T20I sequence opener on the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack by eradicating Dewald Brevis.
Pandya, 32, can also be the primary Indian males’s participant and seam-bowling all-rounder to be a member of a uncommon membership – choosing 100 wickets and amassing 1000 runs in T20Is. This milestone was beforehand achieved solely by spin-bowling all-rounders: Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi and Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza.
With the bat, he has amassed 1939 runs at a mean of 28.10 and a strike price of 141.53. Pandya, a member of the Indian crew profitable 2024 Males’s T20 World Cup, has additionally develop into solely the fourth males’s cricketer to report the double of 100 sixes and take 100 wickets within the format. Earlier than him, Nabi, Raza and Malaysia’s Virandeep Singh have been within the elite checklist.