New Delhi. Singapore's young leg-spinner Harsh Bhardwaj has achieved a major feat in T20 International cricket. Harsh gave only 3 runs in 4 overs and sent 6 players to the pavilion in the T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier A match against Mongolia. This is the second best bowling performance by a bowler in men's T20 International cricket. During this, he broke the record of Nigeria's Peter Aho who took 6 wickets for 5 runs against Sierra Leone in 2021. Malaysian bowlers top this list. Syazarul Idrus took 7 wickets for 8 runs in the 2024 T20 World Cup Asia B Qualifier match against China.
17-year-old Harsh Bhardwaj took two wickets twice in his very first over. Mongolia lost 6 wickets in the powerplay, out of which 5 wickets were of Harsh. Mongolia's team collapsed for just 10 runs in 10 overs. Five of its batsmen could not even open their account while no batsman could even touch the double-digit mark. Five of its batsmen were out on zero, while four batsmen scored one run each while two batsmen contributed two runs each. Harsh Bhardwaj was born on 15 May 2007. He has taken 12 wickets in 10 T20 international matches.
When Pant, Yashasvi and Sarfaraz failed, a 19-year-old batsman scored a century, just look at the happiness of his elder brother
6 wickets fell for 48 runs, then the number 7 batsman played a wonderful innings, hit 6 sixes
Harsh Bhardwaj bowled 2 out of 4 overs maiden
The captain of Singapore expressed his trust in young spinner Harsh Bhardwaj. He gave the first over of the match to Harsh. Harsh also did not disappoint his captain. He bowled 2 overs in his 4 over spell. He gave 3 runs in the remaining two overs and sent six top order batsmen of Mongolia to the pavilion cheaply. Apart from Harsh, Akshay Puri took two wickets for Singapore while Rahul and Ramesh took one wicket each.
Achieve the target in 5 balls
Chasing the target of 11 runs, the Singapore team won in just 5 balls. It achieved this target at the loss of one wicket. Earlier also, the Mongolia team was all out for just 17 runs in this tournament. It scored 17 runs in 14.3 overs against Hong Kong. In that match too, the bowler of Indian origin did wonders. Ayush Shukla bowled all his four overs maiden against Mongolia and also took one wicket.
tag: Numbers Game, T20 Cricket
first published : September 5, 2024, 5:33 PM IST
