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After suffering a loss in the first T20I at Delhi, India came back with aplomb to beat Bangladesh at Rajkot and Nagpur to win the three-match T20I series. In the series-decider at Nagpur, Bangladesh seemed very much in the game until a sensational spell from Deepak Chahar halted their charge. As both the teams gear up to face each other in the longest format of the game, here we take a glance at the records broken and milestones achieved through the series.

Captain Fantastic?

Rohit Sharma has skippered the Indian T20I side in 18 T20Is so far. He has won 14 and lost just four, giving him a win/loss ratio of 3.5, the best for any Indian captain. He is now just two wins shy of equalling Virat Kohli’s tally of wins.

Brilliant Chahar

Deepak Chahar’s six for seven at Nagpur is the best-ever figures in T20Is beating Ajanta Mendis’ haul of six for eight against Zimbabwe. Only three bowlers have picked up six wickets now in an innings in T20Is.

Chahar’s hat-trick is the 12th T20I hat-trick in men’s cricket. It is also the 5th hat-trick in international T20s this year. The only Indian to take a hat-trick before Chahar is India women’s cricketer, Ekta Bisht.

Here are the others:

PLAYER

MATCH

VENUE

SEASON

B Lee

Australia v Bangladesh

Cape Town

2007-08

JDP Oram

New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Colombo (RPS)

2009

TG Southee

New Zealand v Pakistan

Auckland

2010-11

NLTC Perera

Sri Lanka v India

Ranchi

2015-16

SL Malinga

Sri Lanka v Bangladesh

Colombo

2016-17

Faheem Ashraf

Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Abu Dhabi

2017-18

Rashid Khan

Afghanistan v Ireland

Dehradun

2018-19

SL Malinga

Sri Lanka v New Zealand

Pallekele

2019

Mohammad Hasnain

Sri Lanka v Pakistan

Lahore

2019-20

Khawar Ali

Oman v Netherlands

Al Amerat

2019-20

N Vanua

Papua New Guinea v Bermuda

ICCA Dubai

2019-20

DL Chahar

India v Bangladesh

Nagpur

2019-20

There are only three other spells better in all T20 cricket than Chahar’s 6/7. Lasith Malinga and Kyle Jamieson have identical figures of 6/7. They are Colin Ackerman’s 7/18, Arul Suppiah’s 6/5 and Shakib Al Hasan’s 6/6.

Read: Ekta Bisht is the first Indian to take T20I hat-trick, not Deepak Chahar

Five-star pacing attack

India’s pacers took 9 nine wickets in the win at Nagpur. This is the most numbers of wickets to fall to pace in a T20I inning. The previous such instance was in the 2007 World T20 finals between India and Pakistan.

Ruthless India

India have lost only one T20I series at home since the start of 2017. Interestingly, that came in 2019 against Australia when the visitors clean-swept India with a 2-0 win. India have only lost one match from eight series deciders in this format.

Chahal’s personal triumph

Yuzvendra Chahal is the third Indian bowler to 50 T20I wickets. He might have had a poor day with the ball at Nagpur but managed to reach the milestone in the process. Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah are the other Indians who have taken 50 T20I wickets.

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Feature image courtesy: AFP / Punit Paranjpe

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