India vs England
IND vs ENG: The new year has started and Team India is going to play its first series of this year at home. The Indian team will play T20I series against England which will start from January 22 in Kolkata. Team India has been announced for this series. Mohammed Shami has returned to the Indian team after 14 months. Shami played his last match in the ODI World Cup played in the year 2023. After this he had ankle surgery and since then he was looking for a way to return to Team India.
A total of 5 matches will be played in the T20I series between India and England. In this series, the command of Team India will be in the hands of Suryakumar Yadav while Akshar Patel will be in the role of vice-captain. Although many Indian players will be under watch in this series, the highest expectations will be from Arshdeep Singh who has been playing T20I cricket continuously for Team India since his debut in 2022 and has now become the main bowler of the team. In the last 30 months, Arshdeep Singh has played 60 T20I matches and has taken 95 wickets at an average of 18.10. Arshdeep now has a great opportunity to create a record in the T20I series against England.
Arshdeep will have a big miracle in his name
In fact, as soon as Arshdeep Singh takes 2 wickets, he will end Yuzvendra Chahal’s one and a half year long reign in T20I cricket. Chahal is the highest wicket taker for India in T20Is. Chahal has taken 96 wickets in his name in 80 matches. To surpass this figure of Chahal, Arshdeep needs to take only 2 wickets. Not only this, if Arshdeep takes a total of 5 wickets in this series, he will become the first Indian bowler to take 100 wickets in the history of T20I cricket. Till now no Indian bowler has been able to touch this historical figure. In such a situation, Arshdeep will have a great opportunity to reach this position.
Bowler who took most wickets in T20I for India
- Yuzvendra Chahal – 96 wickets
- Arshdeep Singh- 95 wickets
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar- 90 wickets
- Jasprit Bumrah- 89 wickets
- Hardik Pandya- 89 wickets
If Arshdeep manages to take 5 wickets against England, he will become the 9th fast bowler in the world to take 100 wickets in T20I cricket. If Arshdeep takes 5 wickets in the first 2 matches of the series, he will become the third bowler overall and the first fast bowler in the world to complete the fastest hundred of wickets in T20I.
Fastest bowler to take 100 wickets in T20I cricket
- Rashid Khan (Spinner) – 53
- Sandeep Lamichhane (Spinner) – 54
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Spinner) – 63 matches
- Haris Rauf (Pacer) – 71 matches
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