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IND vs SA: Hardik Pandya played his first competitive match for India since September 26, 2025, on Tuesday (December 9) in Cuttack against South Africa and remained unbeaten on 59 runs from just 28 balls. In addition to his super knock, which included 6 fours and 4 sixes, he also picked up one wicket for 16 runs in two overs to set up a big win by 101 runs for the hosts. After winning the Player Of The Match award for his all-round show in the series opener, Pandya would like to come up with another big show in the first-ever T20I match at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur.

In the match scheduled to take place on Thursday (December 11), Pandya will have a chance to enter his name in the history books. If the 32-year-old cricketer from Baroda, who made his T20I debut in January 2016 against Australia, manages to take at least one wicket in the second T20I, then he will complete 100 dismissals in T20Is.

Most wickets for India in T20Is

PLAYER MATCHES WICKETS ECONOMY BEST FIGURES 5-WKT HAULS
Arshdeep Singh 69 107 8.35 4/9 0
Jasprit Bumrah 81 101 6.35 3/7 0
Hardik Pandya 121 99 8.22 4/16 0
Yuzvendra Chahal 80 96 8.19 6/25 1
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 87 90 6.96 5/4 2
Kuldeep Yadav 49 88 6.83 5/17 2
Axar Patel 84 81 7.22 3/9 0
Ravichandran Ashwin 65 72 6.90 4/8 0
Ravi Bishnoi 42 61 7.35 4/13 0
Ravindra Jadeja 74 54 7.13 3/15 0
Washington Sundar 57 51 6.90 3/3 0

The 100th wicket will help him become the third Indian, after Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah, to complete a century of dismissals in T20Is, and in addition to that, he will also become the first Indian to complete the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in T20Is.

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As of now, only four players – Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza, and Malaysia’s Virandeep Singh – have scored 1000 runs and also dismissed 100 batters in T20Is.

Players to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets in T20Is

PLAYER COUNTRY MATCHES RUNS WICKETS
Shakib Al Hasan Bangladesh 129 2551 149
Mohammad Nabi Afghanistan 145 2417 104
Sikandar Raza Zimbabwe 127 2883 102
Virandeep Singh Malaysia 109 3115 107

The one wicket in the 2nd T20I will also help Hardik become the first Indian and overall fourth cricketer in the world to complete the trio of 1000 runs, 100 wickets, and 100 sixes in T20Is.

Shakib finished his T20I career with 53 sixes in 129 matches, but the likes of Nabi, Raza, and Virandeep have completed a century of maximums as well in the 20-over format of the game.

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Players with 1000 runs, 100 wickets, and 100 sixes in T20Is

PLAYER COUNTRY MATCHES RUNS SIXES WICKETS
Mohammad Nabi Afghanistan 145 2417 122 104
Sikandar Raza Zimbabwe 127 2883 133 102
Virandeep Singh Malaysia 109 3115 128 107

Pandya, who is India’s third most capped player in T20Is, completed the century of sixes in T20Is for India on Tuesday. He needed four maximums in the first India-South Africa T20I to join the 100-sixes club, and he achieved the objective during the second ball of the last over of India’s innings, bowled by Anrich Nortje.

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