Mohammad Shami becomes 5th Indian bowler to take 200 wickets in Test cricket
Record: December 29, 2021 10:59
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Centurion,
The Indian cricket team, which is touring South Africa, is playing in a three-match Test series. The first Test started on the 26th at Centurion. India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat first.
In this Test known as ‘Boxing Day’, India were 272 for 3 in 90 overs in the first innings at the end of the first day’s play. The day before yesterday, it was announced that the 2nd day match would be canceled without a single ball being bowled.
India lost all their wickets for 327 runs in 105.3 overs in the 3rd day match yesterday. Following this, South Africa were bowled out for 197 in 62.3 overs in their first innings.
Indian fast bowler Mohammad Shami took 5 wickets in the match. He thus became the 5th Indian bowler to take 200 wickets (55 Tests) in Test cricket. Shami is the second fastest Indian bowler to take 200 wickets after Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Jawahar Srinath.
Various cricket stars yesterday congratulated Mohammad Shami for taking 200 wickets. In this context, the comments of the captain of the Indian team Rohit Sharma regarding Shami posted on his Twitter page yesterday has caused controversy. On his Twitter page, Rohit Sharma posted, “200 is the best number.”
Double hundred is a special number ???? #200 ????
— Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) December 28, 2021
Rohit Sharma is proud to be the only player in the world to score 200 runs in 3 ODIs. Mohammad Shami praised him for the 200 wickets he took in this position
Not to mention Rohit Sharma for his bragging rights
As has been pointed out has caused controversy.