During Rajasthan Royals’ opening match of IPL 2023 against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Yuzvendra Chahal became the first Indian to hit the 300 wickets mark in T20 cricket.
Rajasthan Royals’ Yuzvendra Chahal took four wickets in their IPL 2023 opening game vs Sunrisers Hyderabad. AP
The IPL match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals on Sunday went in favour of the latter, thanks to RR’s star leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Leading the team towards victory, he took not one but four important wickets of Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, and skipper Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Chahal, who is India’s leading wicket-taker in T20Is, effectively dismantled the SRH batting line-up to return with figures of 4-0-17-4. With this, he also achieved a major feat by becoming the first Indian bowler to complete 300 wickets in T20 cricket, a number that has left cricket fans across the country the happiest.
The 32-year-old bowler played his 265th match in the shortest format on Sunday and now has 303 wickets to his name after knocking off Brook on the last ball of the 7th over of the SRH innings.
The fourth match of the IPL 2023 was played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Notably, the match being RR’s opener in the league also marked Chahal’s first wickets this season.
Indian bowlers with most wickets in T20 cricket:
Yuzvendra Chahal 303
Ravichandran Ashwin 287
Piyush Chawla 276
Amit Mishra 272
Jasprit Bumrah 256
As soon as Chahal struck the feat, fans stormed social media to congratulate him and laud his achievement. Renowned commentator Harsha Bhogle also took to Twitter and wrote, “The game in Hyderabad turned out to be a damp squib. But that opening burst from Trent Boult and the great skill of Yuzvendra Chahal were wonderful to watch.”
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SRH vs RR match
In their opening match on Sunday, Rajasthan Royals were on fire as they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 72 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad. After setting a strong target of 204 runs in 20 overs, RR’s bowling lineup did the magic with Yuzvendra Chahal alone taking four wickets. Rajasthan’s batting lineup also seemed in a good form with Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson hitting half-centuries.
While Jaiswal made 54 runs off 37 balls, Buttler slammed 54 off 22 deliveries, and Samson 55 off 32 deliveries.
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