Jasprit Bumrah, India’s premier fast bowler, is only five wickets away from becoming the country’s leading wicket-taker in Twenty20 Internationals. Bumrah will surpass Yuzvendra Chahal (63 wickets) for the record.
Bumrah, who last played for India in a five-match bilateral series against New Zealand in January 2020, would be making his T20I comeback after more than a year.
In the shortest format, the fast bowler has since played for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, where he had a fantastic season in the 2021 edition (21 wickets in 14 games; third-highest wicket-taker in the season).
Chahal is not included in the 15-man T20 World Cup team. He has been overlooked by the selectors, while young leg-spinner Rahul Chahar made the cut.
In this year’s T20 World Cup, Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, and Shardul Thakur constitute a four-man pace attack for India.
Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh surpassed former Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga (107 wickets) to become the top wicket-taker in T20I history earlier in this year’s T20 World Cup. So far, he has 115 wickets in 91 matches.
