This Sunday was indeed a blast for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2023. The team won against Sunrisers Hyderabad by 72 runs in their opening match. Moreover one of the finest spinners of his generation, Yuzvendra Chahal went on to register a landmark that no other Indian player has achieved so far. In the match against SRH, Chahal went o to claim his 300^th wicket in T20 cricket.

The Indian spinner has now achieved his 300^th T20 scalp as he got rid of Harry Brook in the match. The veteran spinner then went on to claim three more wickets — Mayank Agarwal, Adil Rashid and Bhuvneshwar Kumar — to end the match with the figures of 4 for 17.

Now, Chahal has taken the giant lead over second-placed Ravichandran Ashwin.

Most wickets in T20 cricket for the Indians

Yuzvendra Chahal– 303

Ravichandran Ashwin– 287

Piyush Chawla– 276

Amit Mishra- 272

Jasprit Bumrah– 256

This is not enough for Chahal, he also went past Amit Mishra in the list of bowlers with the most number of IPL wickets. Chahal now has 170 scalps to his name in the T20 league which puts him joint-second with Lasith Malinga. Only Dwayne Bravo (183) is ahead of him.

He said, “Definitely the start we wanted. The way Jos and Jaiswal batted, we knew a big score will always be difficult to score. The plan was to bowl stump to stump, tossing it up is my strength. I’m not too bothered about who I’m bowling to. Definitely, you’ll see a big celebration when I get a five-wicket haul.”

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Highlights of the match

As for the match, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson scored a fifty each as last year’s finalists put 203 runs on the board against Hyderabad. Chasing the stiff target, the SRH got off to a poor start, losing five wickets for just 48 runs.

Abdul Samad (32) and Umran Malik (19) prevented Hyderabad from getting bowled out, registering an unbeaten stand of 36 runs for the 9th wicket.

While speaking at the press conference, Chahal admitted being delighted with the start that the Royals got to the campaign.