Rajasthan Royals (RR) spinner Yuzvendra Chahal on Monday completed 200 wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and became the first bowler to do so. The veteran Indian spinner reached the milestone during the IPL match against Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium. This incredible moment of Chahal’s cricket career came during the eighth over of the game. Chahal completed his double century of wickets by catching and bowling Afghanistan and MI all-rounder Mohammad Nabi for 23 runs.
In 153 matches, Chahal has taken 200 wickets at an average of 21.37, with a best performance of 5/40. He has taken four wickets six times and five wickets once during his IPL career. Chahal played for Mumbai Indians (2011-13) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) (2014-21) before joining Rajasthan Royals in 2022. While he did not take any wickets for MI in the only match he played, he took 139 wickets for RCB. In 113 matches. Now for RR he has taken 61 wickets in 39 matches.
Behind him are players like West Indies’ Dwayne Bravo (183 wickets in 161 IPL matches), Piyush Chawla (181 wickets in 186 matches), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (174 wickets in 167 matches) and Amit Mishra (173 wickets in 161 matches).
He is only the third player to take 200 or more wickets in a T20 competition, with England’s Danny Briggs (219 wickets) and Samit Patel (208 wickets) surpassing 200 wickets in the T20 Cup in England.
Talking about the match, Hardik Pandya-led Mumbai Indians (MI) won the toss against Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the 38th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Monday and elected to bat. decided.
Currently, Royals are on top of the IPL 2024 table with 12 points after winning 6 out of 7 matches. They are entering this match after defeating Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 2 wickets.
Meanwhile, the Mumbai-based franchise is placed seventh in the IPL 2024 standings with six points after winning 3 out of 7 matches. In their last game of the tournament, MI won over Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 9 runs.
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan (WK), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (C), Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Mohammad Nabi, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah.
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (WK/C), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal.
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