IND Vs BAN ODI stats, most wickets
IND Vs BAN 2022, most wickets: After a nail-biting World Cup campaign, all the major teams already started their bilateral journey with England, the champions of this year’s T20 World Cup started their campaign at last alongside the team they faced in the finals of the World Cup on November 13.
Team India, who witnessed a semi-final exit from the marquee event, just completed their tour to New Zealand, where they recorded victory in the T20I series by 1-0 under Hardik Pandya. While they lost the ODI series by 1-0 under Shikhar Dhawan.
Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant, the captain and vice-captain duo, respectively, will travel directly from New Zealand to Bangladesh as the first match of the three-match ODI series will take place on December 4.
While the senior players like Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli, who all missed the Blackcaps tour due to workload management will soon join the team too.
With just 3 days left for an electrifying one-day series between India and Bangladesh, let’s quickly look at the players who picked up most number of wickets in the ODI series between and India till date.
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Shakib Al Hasan – 19 wickets in 18 games
Veteran all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan holds the third place in the list of most wickets in IND vs BAN ODI series, as the star all-rounder has bagged 19 wickets in 18 games, he played in ODIs against India, while maintain an economy less than 5. Three for 27 was his best performance against India in ODIs.
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Mustafizur Rahman – 20 wickets in 7 games
The talented left-arm bowler has grabbed the second spot in the list despite playing just 7 matches in his 7-year of international career.
Rahman, the sensational bowler known for his unplayable Yorkers during the death overs, has scalped 20 wickets in 7 games he featured in for Bangladesh against India in ODI cricket.
He maintains an economy of less than 5.5 and recorded his best figures as six for 43. This figure came during the second match of the India tour of Bangladesh 2015, where he started the bowling proceedings for the Tigers and restricted the mighty Indian side to just 200 in a 47-over game due to D/L method.
The young bowler got the big wickets of Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin in the process, as a result of power-packed bowling Bangladesh chased down the small target and won the match by 6 wickets.
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Mashrafe Mortaza – 23 wickets in 20 matches
The former skipper of Bangladesh, who is widely known as one of the best skippers of Bangladesh in cricket, is topping the chart of highest wicket taker in the India versus Bangladesh series.
Interestingly, there is no player in this list, as we have seen them in most runs list, but the highest wicket takers list is dominated by the Bangladeshi bowlers.
Mortaza has bagged 23 wickets in 20 games while marinating a good economy of 5.09 despite bowling in first and last powerplay of the game.
