Yuzvendra Chahal Snaps Four Wickets; Joins Elite List Featuring Anil Kumble During IND vs SA, CWC 2019 Tie (Watch Video)
Yuzvendra Chahal who was playing his first World Cup match against South Africa at the Rose Bowl Cricket Ground, Southampton today started off his campaign on a very positive note.
Yuzvendra Chahal who was playing his first World Cup match against South Africa at the Rose Bowl Cricket Ground, Southampton today started off his campaign on a very positive note. The leg-spinner created a record for himself and joined an elite league of the players featuring Anil Kumble. The leg-spinner snapped four wickets after being introduced on the 18th over by the Indian team. Yuzi snapped the wickets of Faf Du Plessis and Rassie van der Dussen had a partnership of 54 runs. He continued to create havoc as continued to take wickets of David Miller and Andile Phehlukwayo. South Africa vs India Live Cricket Score 8th ODI Match.
With this, Chahal gave away 51 runs snapping four wickets. This was the third time that the leg spinner snapped four wickets. The leg spinner has managed four-plus wickets four times. Chahal has also become the first Indian leg-spinner since Kumble to take four wickets in a World Cup match. Kumble had registered figures of 4-31 against the Netherlands in 2003. Rohit Sharma Scores 50.
Talking about the match, after winning the toss, South African elected to bowl first and put up the score of 227 runs for the Indian team. Jasprit Bumrah started off well with the new ball and snapped a couple of wickets. Kuldeep Yadav got a wicket. By the end of the innings, Bhuvneshwar Kumar snapped a couple of wickets.
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