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Ravichandran Ashwin Becomes India's Leading Wicket-Taker in T20

Ashwin has collected a total of 271 T20 wickets and became India’s leading wicket-taker in T20 after surpassing the leg-spinner Piyush Chawla (270 wickets).

Sandipan Ghosh
Sandipan Ghosh
Last updated: 28.04.2022
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Ravichandran Ashwin Becomes India's Leading Wicket-Taker in T20

The 35-year-old Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin played a crucial role for Rajasthan Royals’ (RR) latest victory against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) last Tuesday (26th April) night. During that game, Ashwin became India’s leading wicket-taker in T20.

It was the 39th match of the IPL 2022, where RR faced RCB at Pune. While RR scored 144/8 in 20 overs, RCB were bowled out for just 115 runs (19.3 overs). RR won that game by 29 runs and climbed up top of the points table with 12 points in eight matches.


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While the right-arm fast bowler Kuldeep Sen bagged four wickets (4/20), Ravichandran Ashwin scalped three wickets (3/17) in the second innings. With those three wickets, Ashwin has collected a total of 271 T20 wickets and became India’s leading wicket-taker in T20 after surpassing the leg-spinner Piyush Chawla (270 wickets).

Most T20 Wickets for India (at least 200 T20 wickets)

Player

Bowling style

Wickets

Ravichandran Ashwin

Right-arm offbreak

271

Piyush Chawla

Right-arm legbreak

270

Yuzvendra Chahal

Right-arm legbreak

265

Amit Mishra

Right-arm legbreak

262

Jasprit Bumrah

Right-arm fast

243

Harbhajan Singh

Right-arm offbreak

235

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Right-arm medium

221

Jaydev Unadkat

Left-arm medium

201

 

Ravichandran Ashwin’s latest status in most T20 wickets

  • Joint 18th position in the list of “most T20 wickets”.

  • Joint ninth position in the list of “Asians with most wickets in T20”.

  • Joint eighth position in the list of “spinners with most T20 wickets”.

  • Joint third position in the list of “off-spinners with most wickets in T20”.


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Ravichandran Ashwin also completed 150 wickets in IPL

During that same game, when Ashwin took his first wicket of the match by dismissing Rajat Patidar, he completed 150 IPL wickets.


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Most IPL wickets (at least 150 IPL wickets)

Player

Nationality

Bowling style

Wickets

Dwayne Bravo

Trinidadian

Right-arm Medium

181

Lasith Malinga

Sri Lankan

Right-arm fast

170

Amit Mishra

Indian

Right-arm legbreak

166

Yuzvendra Chahal

Indian

Right-arm legbreak

157

Piyush Chawla

Indian

Right-arm legbreak

157

Ravichandran Ashwin

Indian

Right-arm offbreak

152

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Indian

Right-arm medium

151

Harbhajan Singh

Indian

Right-arm offbreak

150

 

Ravichandran Ashwin in the list of 150 IPL wickets


  • Eighth bowler to complete 150 IPL wickets.

  • Sixth Indian bowler to complete 150 IPL wickets.

  • Fifth spinner as well as Indian spinner to complete 150 IPL wickets.

  • Second off-spinner to complete 150 IPL wickets.


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