The 31-year-old India Nationwide Cricket Crew right-arm pacer Mohammed Siraj has achieved a exceptional milestone in worldwide cricket.
Mohammed Siraj has joined the legends of the India Nationwide Cricket Crew in an elite 200 worldwide wickets membership along with his performances within the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
Mohammed Siraj completes 200 worldwide wickets
Siraj made his debut for Crew India in November 2017 in a T20I match towards New Zealand in Rajkot. Since then, he has shone brilliant with the ball throughout all codecs in worldwide cricket.
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The suitable-arm fast bought his ODI cap in January 2019 and Check cap in December 2020. He rapidly established himself because the all-format pacer for India and is at present considered the second-best pacer within the aspect, solely behind Jasprit Bumrah.
Though he lately confronted axing in white-ball cricket regardless of performing nicely for the group, there are very excessive possibilities that he may quickly be seen within the blue jersey.
At the moment, he’s concerned within the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025 towards England and has bowled his coronary heart out for India with out worrying about his workload.
He’s the one Indian bowler to play all 5 Check matches within the ongoing sequence, and the one different bowler who has additionally featured in all of the matches is England’s Chris Woakes, who suffered a shoulder harm on Day 1 and bought dominated out.
Mohammed Siraj has taken time to seek out rhythm, however total, he has bowled fairly nicely for the guests and is at present India’s main wicket-taker within the ongoing tour.
Siraj bagged 14 wickets within the first 4 matches and picked his first wicket within the fifth Check on the Kennington Oval by dismissing England stand-in skipper Ollie Pope.
On the fourth ball of the twenty fifth over, Siraj bowled a sensational good-length supply simply exterior off-stump to Pope that jagged again and hit the batter on the again pad.
The on-field umpire did not elevate his finger, however the Indian group used a evaluation, and the Hawkeye returned with three reds, which led to the England skipper’s dismissal for 22 runs.
By dismissing Ollie Pope, Mohammed Siraj turned the fifteenth Indian pacer to bag 200 or extra worldwide wickets. His first worldwide wicket was Kane Williamson, fiftieth was Matthew Potts, one centesimal was Ashton Agar, one hundred and fiftieth was Ben Foakes, and Ollie Pope turned his 2 hundredth scalp.
Watch: Mohammed Siraj cleans up Ollie Pope to finish 200 worldwide wickets
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Full listing of Indians with 200 or extra worldwide wickets:
| Rank | Participant | Span | Matches | Wickets | Bowling Common |
| 1 | Anil Kumble | 1990–2008 | 401 | 953 | 30.06 |
| 2 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 2010–2024 | 287 | 765 | 25.8 |
| 3 | Harbhajan Singh | 1998–2016 | 365 | 707 | 32.59 |
| 4 | Kapil Dev | 1978–1994 | 356 | 687 | 28.83 |
| 5 | Ravindra Jadeja | 2009–2025 | 363 | 615 | 29.37 |
| 6 | Zaheer Khan | 2000–2014 | 303 | 597 | 31.48 |
| 7 | Javagal Srinath | 1991–2003 | 296 | 551 | 29.11 |
| 8 | Mohammed Shami | 2013–2025 | 197 | 462 | 26.1 |
| 9 | Jasprit Bumrah | 2016–2025 | 207 | 457 | 20.63 |
| 10 | Ishant Sharma | 2007–2021 | 199 | 434 | 32.35 |
| 11 | Ajit Agarkar | 1998–2007 | 221 | 349 | 31.09 |
| 12 | Kuldeep Yadav | 2017–2025 | 166 | 306 | 22.86 |
| 13 | Irfan Pathan | 2003–2012 | 173 | 301 | 29.85 |
| 14 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 2012–2022 | 229 | 294 | 29.5 |
| 15 | Venkatesh Prasad | 1994–2001 | 194 | 292 | 33.19 |
| 16 | Umesh Yadav | 2010–2023 | 141 | 288 | 31.62 |
| 17 | Ravi Shastri | 1981–1992 | 230 | 280 | 38.69 |
| 18 | Bishan Singh Bedi | 1966–1979 | 77 | 273 | 29.21 |
| 19 | Manoj Prabhakar | 1984–1996 | 169 | 253 | 32.07 |
| 20 | Bhagwath Chandrasekhar | 1964–1979 | 59 | 245 | 29.53 |
| 21 | Ashish Nehra | 1999–2017 | 161 | 233 | 32.28 |
| 22 | Yuzvendra Chahal | 2016–2023 | 152 | 217 | 26.23 |
| 23 | Hardik Pandya | 2016–2025 | 219 | 202 | 30.91 |
| 24 | Sachin Tendulkar | 1989–2013 | 664 | 201 | 46.53 |
| 25 | Mohammed Siraj | 2017–2025 | 101 | 200 | 29.15 |
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