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T20 World Cup: India’s spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is closing in on becoming India’s leading wicket-taker in T20Is. Bumrah is five wickets away from leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal’s (63 wickets) record.
Jasprit Bumrah in action (Image Courtesy: AP)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Jasprit Bumrah closing in on becoming India’s leading wicket-taker in T20Is
- Jasprit Bumrah 5 wickets away from breaking Yuzvendra Chahal’s record
- India will lock horns with arch-rival Pakistan in their opening match in Dubai on Sunday
Jasprit Bumrah, India’s premier fast bowler, is only five wickets away from becoming the country’s leading wicket-taker in Twenty20 Internationals. Bumrah will surpass Yuzvendra Chahal (63 wickets) for the record.
Over the last several years, the 26-year-old has been India’s pace spearhead in all three formats, and he will also lead the Indian bowling attack in the 2021 T20 World Cup, which begins on Sunday against arch-rivals Pakistan.
Bumrah, who last played for India in a five-match bilateral series against New Zealand in January 2020, would be making his T20I comeback after more than a year.
In the shortest format, the fast bowler has since played for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, where he had a fantastic season in the 2021 edition (21 wickets in 14 games; third-highest wicket-taker in the season).
Chahal is not included in the 15-man T20 World Cup team. He has been overlooked by the selectors, while young leg-spinner Rahul Chahar made the cut.
In this year’s T20 World Cup, Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, and Shardul Thakur constitute a four-man pace attack for India.
Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh surpassed former Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga (107 wickets) to become the top wicket-taker in T20I history earlier in this year’s T20 World Cup. So far, he has 115 wickets in 91 matches.
India will begin their campaign on Sunday against Pakistan in a rerun of the 2007 final, in which the MS Dhoni-led Indian squad upset Pakistan by five runs in a thrilling finish.
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