In Test cricket, Ravindra Jadeja became the fourth Indian spinner to reach 300 wickets. After getting rid of Khaled Ahmed, the last player to fall for Bangladesh, he reached the milestone.
After Anil Kumble (619), R Ashwin (524), Kapil Dev (434), Harbhajan Singh (417), Ishan Sharma (311), and Zaheer Khan (311), Jadeja is the eighth Indian to achieve the feat. In terms of balls bowled, Jadeja is the second-fastest player to achieve the milestone, behind only R Ashwin, who needed 15,636 balls to do it. Jadeja got 300 Test wickets in 17 and 428 deliveries.
History is Written by Ravindra Jadeja
Concurrently, Jadeja made history by being the second-fastest person to reach the triple crown of 3000 runs and 300 wickets in Test cricket. Ian Botham reached the milestone the fastest, taking only 72 matches to do so, while Jadeja needed just 73 to do so. He is the third Indian player overall to capture 300 wickets and amass 3000 runs in Test cricket; the other two are R Ashwin and Kapil Dev.
Players | Matches |
Ian Botham | 72 |
Ravindra Jadeja | 73 |
Imran Khan | 75 |
Kapil Dev | 83 |
Richard Hadlee | 83 |
India Wins the Second Test.
In the meantime, India is winning the second Test. India had to force a result after the match was abandoned due to rain for a considerable portion of it. They bowled Bangladesh out for 233 after they played brilliantly with the ball. With the ball, India came out swinging, setting a new record for the quickest fifty in Test cricket.
They broke England’s record, set in the Test match against the West Indies earlier this year, reaching the milestone in only three overs. The bowlers from Bangladesh were frightened as Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal tonked the ball to every area of the field. As of writing, India was 103-1, scoring over 10 runs each over. Before sending Bangladesh to bat, India will like to have a commanding lead before the end of the day and bat the first session on Day 1.