{"id":3716,"date":"2025-09-21T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:48:06","slug":"ind-vs-pak-hardik-becomes-indias-top-wicket-taker-in-asia-cup-t20is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/ind-vs-pak-hardik-becomes-indias-top-wicket-taker-in-asia-cup-t20is\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs PAK: Hardik Becomes India\u2019s Top Wicket-Taker in Asia Cup T20Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hardik Pandya is now the highest wicket-taker for India in Asia Cup matches. He&nbsp;achieved&nbsp;this record during the Super&nbsp;Four&nbsp;match&nbsp;against Pakistan in Dubai&nbsp;on Sunday. The all-rounder also climbed to second place on India\u2019s all-time T20I wicket-takers\u2019&nbsp;list with this performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31\u2013year-old struck early in the match. In the&nbsp;third&nbsp;over, he dismissed Pakistan opener FakharZaman, who edged the ball to wicketkeeper Sanju Samson after&nbsp;he scored&nbsp;15 runs from nine balls. That wicket gave Hardik&nbsp;his&nbsp;14th&nbsp;wicket&nbsp;in Asia Cup T20Is&nbsp;in his 12th&nbsp;match, which&nbsp;brokeBhuvneshwar Kumar\u2019s&nbsp;previous&nbsp;record of 13 wickets from six games. Hardik now shares&nbsp;his&nbsp;overall tournament record with Afghanistan\u2019s&nbsp;captain&nbsp;Rashid Khan and Sri Lanka\u2019s WaninduHasaranga, who also have 14 wickets&nbsp;each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardik now has 15 wickets against Pakistan,&nbsp;which is&nbsp;the most by any Indian in T20I matches between&nbsp;matches of these two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardik now has 97 T20I wickets,&nbsp;leaving behind&nbsp;Yuzvendra Chahal&nbsp;tally of&nbsp;96.&nbsp;Arshdeep Singh is&nbsp;on top&nbsp;with 100 wickets, which he reached in the previous game against Oman on September 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other then Hardik,&nbsp;Shivam Dube got two crucial wickets and&nbsp;Kuldeep Yadav managed to get onewhich stopped Pakistan&nbsp;at 171&nbsp;runs&nbsp;for the loss of&nbsp;five wickets in their 20 overs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardik Pandya is now the highest wicket-taker for India in Asia Cup matches. He&nbsp;achieved&nbsp;this record during the Super&nbsp;Four&nbsp;match&nbsp;against Pakistan in Dubai&nbsp;on Sunday. The all-rounder also climbed to second place on India\u2019s all-time T20I wicket-takers\u2019&nbsp;list with this performance. The 31\u2013year-old struck early in the match. In the&nbsp;third&nbsp;over, he dismissed Pakistan opener FakharZaman, who edged the ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}