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Yuzvendra Chahal becomes first bowler to snap 200 IPL wickets

Chahal has played a grand total of 153 matches to get past the milestone of double hundred, averaging 21.38.

Yuzvendra Chahal of Rajasthan Royals celebrates the wicket of Mohammad Nabi of Mumbai Indians during match 38 of the Indian Premier League season 17 (IPL 2024) between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians held at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur on the 22nd April 2024. (Sportzpics)

By: Sports Desk

2 min readApr 23, 2024 08:15 AM IST First published on: Apr 22, 2024 at 08:26 PM IST

The leading wicket-taker in IPL history, Yuzvendra Chahal touched a never-heard before milestone in the history of the league on Monday. Removing Mohammad Nabi in his first over against the Mumbai Indians, Chahal became the first bowler to pick 200 wickets in IPL.

It was a typical Yuzi Chahal wicket as the leg-spinner injected a good amount of air to the ball and pitched it on the middle and leg and the Afghan all-rounder ended up finding a leading edge that travelled all the way back to the bowler.

Celebrating the landmark wicket, Chahal went down on the ground on both knees and pointed both his fingers to the sky before his teammates swarmed over him.

First bowler in the history of IPL to take 200 wickets! 🙌

Congratulations Yuzvendra Chahal 👏👏

Watch the match LIVE on @JioCinema and @StarSportsIndia 💻📱#TATAIPL | #RRvMI | @yuzi_chahal pic.twitter.com/zAcG8TR6LN

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 22, 2024

Chahal is currently the joint-leading wicket taker of the season alongside Jasprit Bumrah, with 13 scalps from eight innings – yet to finish his quota on Monday.

The former RCB spinner, who joined Rajasthan in the 2022 season has played a grand total of 153 matches to get past the milestone of double hundred, averaging 21.38. This includes six four-wicket hauls and a 5-fer.

Just behind Chahal in the tally are Dwayne Bravo (183), Piyush Chawla (181), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (174) and Amit Mishra (173).

Back in 2022, when Rajasthan went all the way to the final, Chahal had closed the season as the leading wicket taker.

This year, the 2008 winners are leading the points table with six wins from seven games walking into Monday’s contest.