IPL 2023: Yuzvendra Chahal Makes History; Becomes First Indian to Achieve This Feat in T20s 

IPL 2023: It is just the third day of the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League, but fans have been enthralled by a number of performances. Gujarat Titans started the tournament with a brilliant chase against Chennai Super Kings. Sunday was no different. In the first game of the doubleheader on Sunday, last season’s finalist, the Rajasthan Royals, locked horns with Sunrisers Hyderabad in the afternoon game.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar led SRH in the absence of Aiden Markram. He won the toss and elected to bowl first. But that decision backfired as RR got off to a perfect start with Jos Buttler carrying on his form from last season. He smashed a 19-ball fifty within the power play. Buttler made 54 off just 22 balls, including three sixes and seven boundaries. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson also scored fifty each. Samson made a 34-ball 55, and Jaiswal managed 55 off 38.

IPL 2023: Yuzvendra Chahal makes history with his 4/17 against SRH on Sunday

As a result, Rajasthan became the first team to cross the 200-run mark in the 16th edition. RR scored 203/5 in their 20 overs. Not just with the bat, RR also got off to a dream start with the ball in the very first over. Trent Boult dismissed Abhishek Sharma for a duck on the third ball. Then he followed it up by dismissing Rahul Tripathi for duck two balls later. The third player to be dismissed was Harry Brook (13).

He got an excellent delivery from Yuzvendra Chahal, which hit his middle and leg stumps. With this wicket, Chahal also wrote his name in the record books. He became the first and only bowler for India to pick up 300 wickets in T20s. Brook was his 300th career wicket in a shorter format. He also has 91 international wickets in it.

It was not it. Chahal backed it up with a brilliant spell of 4/17 in the game. It helped RR restrict SRH at 131/8 in the chase. Thus, Rajasthan registered a dominating win of 72 runs in their first game. In the list of most T20 wickets for India, Ravi Ashwin is second with 287 career wickets. Piyush Chawla (276), Amit Mishra (272), and Jasprit Bumrah (256) are next on the list.