Team India's spin twins Yuzvendra Chahal (4/52) and Kuldeep Yadav (3/52) once again showed their prowess with the ball as they shared seven wickets amongst them to set-up an 88-run win over Sri Lanka in the second T20I in Indore in Friday Dec 22,2017
Stand-in-skipper Rohit Sharma slammed a record-equalling ton (118 off 43 deliveries) while Chahal and Kuldeep shone with the ball as the hosts took a 2-0 unassailable lead in the 3-match series at the Holkar Stadium.
The duo have been bowling consistently over the past one year in the limited-over formats of the game and that has almost guaranteed them a spot in the ODI and T20 squads of India. In the shortest format of the game, both Chahal and Kuldeep have given the 'Men in Blue' an extra dimension, as far as the bowling department is concerned.
In the first match of the series, Chahal scalped four wickets to become the top-wicket-taker of the calendar year and he has now added four more to his tally. While as for Kuldeep, he hasn't been as prolific as Chahal in terms of wickets, but he isn't very far behind the leggie as well. Moreover, Kuldeep has played four matches less than Chahal so far this year.
Top Wicket-takers in T20Is in 2017
1. Yuzvendra Chahal: 23 wickets in 11 matches
2. Rashid Khan: 17 wickets in 10 matches
3. Kesrick Williams: 17 wickets in 9 matches
4. Shadab Khan: 14 wickets in 10 matches
5. Imran Tahir: 14 wickets in 9 matches
9. Jasprit Bumrah: 12 wickets in 11 matches
13. Kuldeep Yadav: 11 wickets in 7 matches
Chahal needs just one more wicket to overtake Ashwin as the Indian spinner with most number of T20I wickets in a calendar year. Ashwin scalped 23 wickets in 2016, the same as Chahal this year. While, if Chahal manages to scalp two, then he will overtake Ashwin and become the most prolific Indian spinner in a single bilateral T20I series. (Ashwin took 9/35 v SL in 2016, whilst Chahal has taken 8/75 this series, with one match to go)
Three wickets for Chahal in this clash will see him overtake Saeed Ajmal’s mark of 25 T20I wickets in a single calendar year (in 2012), the current most by any spinner.
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