Spinner Kuldeep Yadav turned the quickest Indian to select 50 wickets in T20 Internationals by variety of matches performed in the course of the third T20I towards West Indies on Tuesday.
Kuldeep reached the milestone in his thirtieth T20I match for India, going previous teammate Yuzvendra Chahal, who picked 50 T20I wickets in 34 matches.
The 28-year-old’s fiftieth T20I scalp was Brandon King, who was caught and bowled for 42 within the fifteenth over of West Indies’ innings. Kuldeep had picked the wickets of Johnson Charles and Nicholas Pooran earlier within the match and ended with figures of three for 28 in 4 overs.
Dhruvkumar Maisuria of Botswana is the quickest to succeed in the milestone of fifty T20I wickets, in 22 matches. Among ICC Full-Member nations, Sri Lanka’s Ajantha Mendis holds the file for choosing 50 wickets in 26 T20Is.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com