Bhuvneshwar Kumar becomes first Indian pacer to record 300 T20 wickets during SMAT 2024

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SMAT 2024: Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the archetypal Indian pacer to grounds 300 T20 wickets connected Saturday. (Reuters)

Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the archetypal India pacer to implicit 300 T20 wickets during Uttar Pradesh’s opening Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy lucifer against Delhi astatine the Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai connected Saturday.

Featuring successful his archetypal large competitory crippled since the IPL 2024 season, Bhuvneshwar reached the feat with his archetypal wicket for UP successful the match, dismissing Delhi opener Yash Dhull for six successful his 2nd over. The 34-old seamer is besides captaining the Uttar Pradesh broadside successful the tournament.

Bhuvneshwar eclipsed India’s stand-in Test skipper Jasprit Bumrah to go the archetypal pacer from the state to scope the milestone of 300 T20 wickets.

Only spinners Yuzvendra Chahal (354), Piyush Chawla (314) and R Ashwin (310) person picked up much wickets than Bhuvneshwar successful the T20 format among Indians. 90 of Bhuvneshwar’s vocation wickets person travel successful nationalist colours betwixt 2012 and 2022, making him the second-highest wicket-taking pacer for India.

The plaything king from Meerut made his T20 debut successful a Champions League T20 crippled successful 2009 for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru astatine the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. He went wicketless successful his maiden outing, conceding 31 runs successful 4 overs against Delhi Daredevils.

In 176 games, Bhuvneshwar has racked up 181 wickets, making him the astir palmy seamer successful the tournament’s history.

Bhuvneshwar was released by the SunRisers Hyderabad aft 10 years past month, up of Sunday’s IPL 2025 mega auction successful Jeddah. Bhuvneshwar is listed astatine a basal terms of INR 2 crore successful the auction pool.

Bhuvneshwar holds the favoritism of becoming the archetypal India pacer to grounds five-wicket hauls successful each 3 formats. He past featured for India successful a T20I successful November 2022.

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