Scheduled for Saturday, January 25, at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Arshdeep Singh will head India’s pace attack in the second T20I against England. With the shortest format of the game, the 25-year-old left-arm pacer is about to create history. Arshdeep has 97 wickets in 61 T20Is as of now; he needs only three more to be the quickest fast bowler in the globe to achieve 100 T20I dismissals.
Pakistan’s Haris Rauf currently has the record, reaching the landmark in his 71st game. Arshdeep has the chance to set the record and have his name written in the record books.
Fastest Pacers to 100 T20I Wicket(fields):
Haris Rauf (Pakistan) played 71 games.
Mark Adair (Ireland) – seventy-two games
Bilal Khan (Oman) has played 72 games.
Shaheen Shah Afridi of Pakistan has played in 74 games.
Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga: 76 games
Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman has 81 matches.
Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan has the general record with 100 wickets in only 53 T20Is.
The most recent performance of Arshdeep
Arshdeep had two wickets in the series opener at Eden Gardens against England on January 22, thereby eclipsing Yuzvendra Chahal’s mark of 96 wickets to claim the title of India’s all-time top wicket-taker in T20Is. Last seen for India in a T20I against West Indies in August 2023, Chahal has 96 wickets from 80 games.
Most wickets for Indian in T20:
Arshdeep Singh: 97
Yuzvendra Chahal—96.
Hardik Pandya: 91
Bhuvneshwar Kumar: 90
Jasprit Bumrah, 89.
Arshdeep would also be the first Indian bowler in T20Is to achieve the 100-wicket mark thanks to a three-wicket haul on Saturday. Arshdeep has climbed to be India’s top wicket-taker in under three years since first appearing against England in Southampton on July 7, 2022.
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In the second T20, Hardik Pandya is approaching another milestone. One wicket would let the 31-year-old Baroda cricketer become India’s leading wicket-taker against England in T20Is. Hardik and Chahal currently share the top with 16 wickets each.
Maximum number of T20I wickets versus England comes against:
Chris Jordan (UK)—24
Hardik Pandya (India) – sixteen.
India’s Yuzvendra Chahal has 16 runs in.scatter in this tournament.
Jofra Archer of England has 10.
Adil Rashid of England comes in tenth place.
Arshdeep’s goal of reaching 100 T20I wickets would be the highlight of the game as Pandya eyes this milepost; since both players hope to solidify their legacies in Indian cricket, by further reference to Indian cricket.