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IND vs SA 3rd T20I: India's Hardik Pandya has created history by becoming the third Indian bowler to have taken 100 wickets in the shortest format. Hardik, who made his T20I debut in 2016 against Australia, took his 100th wicket against South Africa in Dharamshala on Sunday.

Tristan Stubbs took his 100th wicket after playing in 122 T20I matches.

He became the third Indian bowler, apart from Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah, to have taken 100 wickets in the shortest format.

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Arshdeep was the first Indian bowler to take 100 wickets in this format earlier this year in the Asia Cup game against Oman, and then Bumrah achieved this milestone in the series opener against South Africa.

Most wickets for India in T20Is

PLAYER MATCHES WICKETS BEST FIGURES 5-WKT HAULS
Arshdeep Singh 71* 108* 4/9 0
Jasprit Bumrah 82 101 3/7 0
Hardik Pandya 123* 100* 4/16 0
Yuzvendra Chahal 80 96 6/25 1
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 87 90 5/4 2
Kuldeep Yadav 50* 88* 5/17 2
Axar Patel 85 81 3/9 0
Ravichandran Ashwin 65 72 4/8 0
Ravi Bishnoi 42 61 4/13 0
Ravindra Jadeja 74 54 3/15 0
Washington Sundar 57 51 3/3 0

Rashid Khan has the record of taking the highest wickets in this format. He has taken 182 wickets after playing in 108 matches.

Besides being the third Indian bowler to take 100 wickets, Hardik is also the first Indian to have achieved the milestone of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the shortest format.

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The other four players to have achieved this milestone are Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza, and Malaysia’s Virandeep Singh.

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
Hardik Pandya India 123* 1939 100*

He also became the 4th cricketer to have achieved the feat of scoring 1000 runs, taking 100 wickets, and smashing 100 sixes in this format.

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
Hardik Pandya India 123* 1939 101 100*

He smashed 100 sixes in the shortest format earlier this week. He had scored a match-winning knock of 59 runs off 28 balls, in which he had smashed six fours and four sixes, and that's how he took his tally to 100 sixes.


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