After a break of a couple of weeks, international cricket resumes for team India with the five-match T20I series against England. The opening game of the series will take place at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata and fast bowler Arshdeep Singh will be eager to create an all-time record in the clash. The left-arm bowler has so far picked up 95 wickets for India and is only two scalps away from becoming the highest wicket-taker for the country.
Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who is not in the reckoning anymore, is currently the highest wicket-taker with 96 wickets to his name in 79 innings at an average of 25.09 and a strike rate of 18.7. However, Arshdeep has only played 60 T20Is so far to account for 95 scalps in the shortest format of the game at an impeccable average of 18.1 and a strike rate of 13.05.
In fact, Arshdeep has a chance to become the first-ever Indian bowler to reach the milestone of 100 wickets in T20 Internationals in this series. Along with him, even Hardik Pandya has a chance to climb the ladder having picked up 89 wickets in 97 innings so far.
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Overall, Arshdeep Singh will be the 20th bowler in the shortest form of the game to reach 100 wickets if he picks five more wickets. Pandya also has a chance to do so if he clicks with the ball over the course of the next five T20Is in the blue jersey. It is surprising to see none of the Indian bowlers have so far completed a century of wickets despite playing second most T20Is (242). For the unversed, Pakistan have played most T20I matches (253) in history so far.
