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Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah stands on the cusp of some historical milestones as the T20I series against South Africa starts on Tuesday at Cuttack.
After a humiliating 0-2 whitewash loss in test series, their second in back-to-back years at home after loss against New Zealand and following it with a 2-1 series win in an exciting trilogy of ODIs, Team India under Suryakumar Yadav and Gautam Gambhir, who have been unstoppable and are yet to drop a series in T20s, will be aiming to ramp up preparations for home T20 World Cup with a massive series win over Proteas, a side filled with experience and excitement of youth in equal parts. First up, Bumrah stands in line to become India's second bowler after left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh to have a century of T20I wickets for India. In 80 T20Is, he has taken 99 scalps at an average of 18.11, with best figures of 3/7. At the top is Arshdeep (105 in 68 matches). With this, he will become the first-ever Indian bowler to have atleast 100 wickets in all formats of the game. Also, he is 18 runs away from becoming the eighth Indian bowler to have 500 wickets across all formats. In 221 matches, Bumrah has taken 482 wickets at an average of 20.60, with best figures of 6/19, 13 four-fers and 18 five-wicket hauls to his name. India squad for T20I series against South Africa: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Washington Sundar. (ANI)
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