Mayank Yadav entered Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s club, did a big feat on the very first ball of Zimbabwe!

Mayank Yadav once again wreaked havoc in the third T20 International match between India and Zimbabwe. He dismissed Zimbabwe’s talented batsman Brian Bennett on the very first ball without opening the account. With this feat, he has come at par with Bhuvneshwar Kumar; ‘Swing King’ has the record of taking a wicket on the first ball of the innings. While Bhuvneshwar achieved this feat only three times in his entire career, Mayank Yadav has achieved it in the initial years of his career itself.

Indian bowler who took wicket on the first ball in T20 International cricket

Bhuvneshwar Kumar tops the list of Indian bowlers taking wickets on the first ball in T20 International cricket, who has done so thrice. Mayank Yadav has also achieved this feat thrice, but he is in second place because he achieved it later. Hardik Pandya is at third place in this list; The famous Indian all-rounder has achieved this feat twice in the shortest format of the game. Arshdeep Singh is in fourth place, who has also taken wicket twice on the first ball of the T20I match. Ravichandran Ashwin is in fifth place, who has achieved this feat once. It is noteworthy that Mayank Yadav had taken a wicket on the first ball of the innings in the first match of this series also. This is the second time in this series and the third time overall that he has achieved this feat.

That brilliant catch of Vaibhav Suryavanshi

In today’s match, Zimbabwe team was chasing the target of 193 runs given by India. Mayank Yadav came to bowl the first over of the innings. He got Brian Bennett caught out on the very first ball, in which Vaibhav Suryavanshi caught. Like the first match, he once again took a wicket on the opening ball. Vaibhav’s brilliant reaction at first slip was also the center of attraction, as the ball was coming rapidly towards him. Mayank Yadav jumped with joy and shouted loudly. The short-length ball, clocked at 147 km/h, swung with bounce and pierced Brian Bennett’s back-foot defensive stroke. The ball hit the outer edge of the bat and went rapidly to the left of first slip. Vaibhav’s eyes remained fixed on the ball, he placed his hands on his left side at chest height and the ball easily came in his grip.

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