Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan Royals in the IPL match on Sunday, due to RR’s top leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. He led the side to victory by taking four crucial wickets: Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, and skipper Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Chahal, India’s best T20I wicket-taker, comprehensively decimated the SRH batting line-up and finished with figures of 4-0-17-4. With this, he also became the first Indian bowler to complete 300 wickets in T20 cricket, a number that has delighted cricket fans throughout the country.
On Sunday, the 32-year-old spinner played his 265th match in the shortest format and now has 303 wickets after dismissing Brook on the penultimate delivery of the SRH innings.
The fourth match of the IPL 2023 was held in Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
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The first Indian to 300 T20 wickets. ππ pic.twitter.com/Q8PDmhHR4V
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) April 2, 2023
Significantly, the match was RR’s debut in the league, and it also represented Chahal’s first wickets of the season.
Indian bowlers with most wickets in T20 cricket:
- Yuzvendra Chahal 303
- Ravichandran Ashwin 287
- Piyush Chawla 276
- Amit Mishra 272
- Jasprit Bumrah 256
Fans flooded social media to congratulate Chahal and applaud his performance as soon as he accomplished the mark.Β Renowned commentator Harsha Bhogle also took to Twitter and wrote, βThe 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.β
The game in Hyderabad turned out to be a damp squib. But that opening burst from Trent Boult and the great skill of @yuzi_chahal were wonderful to watch.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 2, 2023
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Check other reactions:
Yuzvendra Chahal the champion:
4/17 in the opening match of RR while defending 203. One of the greatest spinners ever to be part of the IPL. pic.twitter.com/kxlIFbZTfc
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 2, 2023
Yuzi Chahal completed 300 wickets in T20.
One of the finest spinners in this format. pic.twitter.com/YacYB05ZhG
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 2, 2023
SRH vs RR match
In the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday, Rajasthan Royals were dominant and beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 72 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal took four wickets by himself as RR’s bowling team performed well after setting a challenging mark of 204 runs in 20 overs. With half-centuries from Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, and Sanju Samson, Rajasthan’s batting order also appeared to be in fine shape.
Buttler scored 54 runs off 22 deliveries, Samson hit 55 runs off 32 deliveries, and Jaiswal scored 54 runs off 37 balls.
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