Wanindu Hasaranga in motion© AFP
Sri Lanka’s prime spinner Wanindu Hasaranga joined the elite listing with a large profession milestone, changing into simply the second Sri Lankan to take 100 T20I wickets. Hasaranga grew to become the eleventh males’s participant total and the second Sri Lankan bowler to succeed in 100 wickets in T20Is, after solely Lasith Malinga. The leg-spinner, who’s at the moment the captain of the T20I crew, achieved the feat in the course of the second T20I towards Afghanistan at Dambulla. Hasaranga has taken extra wickets than another bowler in males’s T20Is since debuting in 2019.
Malinga was the one different Sri Lankan bowler with over 100 T20I wickets. Malinga reached the milestone in his 76th T20I, while Hasaranga did so in his 63rd, second quickest to 100 T20I wickets, after solely Rashid Khan, who did so in 53 matches in 2021.
Hasaranga, who concluded with 2/19 in 4 overs at Dambulla on Monday, now has 101 wickets in 63 T20Is at a mean of 15.36 and a strike price of 6.78.
Sri Lanka defeated Afghanistan within the second T20I, taking a 2-0 lead within the three-match sequence.
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