Team India’s strong all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja (Ravindra Jadeja all-rounder) showed tremendous energy as soon as he returned to the field after recovering from the injury. In the first match of the T20I series against the Sri Lankan team, which came to play a bilateral series on India’s tour, on Thursday, 24 February, at the ground of Lucknow, India defeated Sri Lanka by showing tremendous form.
In this match, the dashing all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja looked as fit as before, just like a leopard. Not only this, in 4 overs of his quota of bowling, he also took one wicket for 28 runs at the economy of 7. With this, he overtook 3 players in terms of getting the most wickets in T20 International cricket.
Ravindra Jadeja has overtaken Australian all-rounder Aston Agar, Hong Kong pacer Ejaz Khan and Oman cricketer Khawar Ali in the list of most wickets in T20 International cricket. These three all-rounders have taken 46-46 wickets in T20 International cricket in their career.
Jadeja has equalized former South African fast bowler Morne Morkel and Australia’s dangerous fast bowler Andrew Tye. Both these bowlers have taken 47-47 wickets in T20 International cricket.
If, in the ongoing T20I series against Sri Lanka, Ravindra Jadeja is able to get 3 more wickets, then he will become the 5th all-rounder for Team India to take 50 wickets in T20 International cricket.
The history of T20 International cricket tells that the record for taking most wickets in this format is held by Yuzvendra Chahal. Chahal has taken a total of 67 wickets in T20 International cricket so far. India’s constituent fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah is at number two. The record of 66 wickets is recorded in Bumrah’s account so far.
Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is at third place. Ashwin has taken 61 wickets in T20 Internationals. Then comes the number of fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. He has so far taken 57 wickets in T20 International cricket.
The history of international cricket tells that Ravindra Jadeja has taken 47 wickets at an average of 27.25 in 55 innings of 56 matches in T20 International cricket since 2009. And his best performance in this format has been 3 wickets for 15 runs.
– Vinay Kumar