Jasprit Bumrah became the fastest Indian to complete 300 T20 wickets and second fast bowler from the country to reach this feat on Wednesday. Bumrah's completed the milestone in just 237 innings during Mumbai Indians' Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
SRH's Heinrich Klaasen was his 300th victim in T20Is. Australia's Andrew Tye (208 innings) is the fastest in the list followed by Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga (217). In fact, Bumrah also became the second Indian pacer after Bhuvneshwar Kumar to reach 300 T20 wickets.
Bhuvneshwar had become the first Indian pacer to complete 300 T20 wickets when the Uttar Pradesh bowler achieved the feat during a Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match against Delhi in 2024.
Klaasen was Bumrah's only wicket on the day. In the process, Bumrah also joined Malinga to become Mumbai Indians' joint-highest wicket taker with 170 scalps in IPL. Malinga needed 122 matches at Mumbai Indians to reach 170 wickets while Bumrah took 138 games.
Meanwhile, it was Klaasen's power-hitting (71 off 44 balls) and his 99-run partnership with Abhinav Manohar (43 off 37 balls), that helped SRH to reach 143/8 in 20 overs.
Sent into bat first, Deepak Chahar (2/12) and Trent Boult (4/26) rattled SRH in their opening spells as Pat Cummins' side were reduced to 13/4 in the fifth over before Klaasen-Manohar revived the sinking ship.
Players of both the teams wore black armbands to pay respect to the victims of the terror attack in Pahalgam on Tuesday. They even observed a minute's silence in solidarity of the lost lives in the South Kashmir town.
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