Ashwin Breaks Into Legendary T20 List; Becomes Second Indian to 'This' Feat
Ashwin took 2/27 in his four overs vs MI (AP Photo)
The fixture between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals has been full of milestones. After Yashasvi Jaiswal's blitz, Ravichandran Ashwin became the hero with the ball and became the second Indian to 300 wickets in T20 cricket.
Apart from the legendary spinner, his RR spin-twin Yuzvendra Chahal is the second Indian with over 300 wickets in the shortest format. In the overall list, Ashwin sits on the 17th spot.
Most T20 Wickets
- Dwayne Bravo - 615 wickets
- Rashid Khan - 542 wickets
- Sunil Narine - 485 wickets
- Imran Tahir - 469 wickets
- Shakib Al Hasan - 451 wickets
- Wahab Riaz - 413 wickets
- Andre Russell - 396 wickets
- Lasith Malinga - 390 wickets
- Sohail Tanvir - 389 wickets
- Shahid Afridi - 347 wickets
- Mohammad Nabi - 331 wickets
- Samit Patel - 321 wickets
- Chris Jordan - 315 wickets
- Kieron Pollard - 312 wickets
- Yuzvendra Chahal - 311 wickets
- Andrew Tye - 301 wickets
- Ravichandran Ashwin - 300 wickets*
In his illustrious T20 career, the 36-year-old offie has played 304 matches, playing 193 IPL matches to snap 168 wickets in the lucrative league at an economy rate of 7.00 with an average of 24.39.
Returning to the match against MI, the Royals smacked 212 runs, courtesy of Yashasvi Jaiswal's maiden IPL century. However, replying in the mountainous chase, Mumbai are looking to take it down to the wire with Suryakumar Yadav's blistering half-century, despite Ashwin's 2/27.
At the time of writing, MI are at 150/3 after 15 overs, needing 63 runs off the last five overs.
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