The 34-year-old Piyush Chawla continues to create a buzz with his spin wizardry for Mumbai Indians (MI) in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). In the match against Punjab Kings (PBKS), Chawla stepped on a big milestone as he shattered former MI teammate Lasith Malinga's record of 170 wickets in IPL. Chawla got the prized wicket of PBKS skipper Shikhar Dhawan and with this he went past Malinga's wicket tally of 170 in IPL. Chawla, went on to dismiss Matthew Short to take his IPL wicket tally to 172 as he now sits alongwith Lucknow Super Giants' Amit Mishra in IPL's most wicket takers list which is led by former Chennai Super Kings' star all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, who took 183 wickets.
Bowlers with most IPL wickets (matches)
Dwayne Bravo 183 (161)
Yuzvendra Chahal 178 (140)
Amit Mishra 172 (160)
Piyush Chawla 172 (174)
Lasith Malinga 170 (122)
R Ashwin 170 (193)
The match saw a perfect battle between Dhawan and Chawla who were trying to get the better of each other. But it was Chawla, who had the last laugh when his clever googly wide off him made Dhawan dance down the track. Ishan Kishan did the rest as he collected to ball and stumped the PBKS captain for 30 off 20. Chawla didn't stop there as he struck back and snared Matthew Short's wicket to become joint third highest wicket taker in IPL history.
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Chawal returned with a brilliant spell of 2/29. Earlier, Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first against PBKS.
“I asked Shikhar Dhawan what to do. He said bowl first, so we will bowl first. It's a good pitch, we have chased down targets pretty well, so will stick to our strengths. You always want to have a score in front of you on such pitches. It's important to keep the balance, we have played enough IPL games, things can change quickly. You can see how tight the table is. It's important to focus on what we can do as a team. It's all about coming fresh into the game and try to execute your plans. We have one change, Merdith is injured. Akash is in,” MI captain Rohit said after winning the toss.
“We would have bowled first. I feel the wicket looks good, it's not dry, won't change much. It's good to bat first and post a big total, looking forward to it. We keep the energy calm and relaxed. Mentally you need to be relaxed, as a leader I need to make sure of it. Short and Ellis come in. Rabada is out,” PBKS skipper Shikhar Dhawan said after the toss.
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Jofra Archer, Piyush Chawla, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Arshad Khan.
MI impact subs: Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Vishnu Vinod, Ramandeep Singh, Tristan Stubbs.
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Prabhsimran Singh, Shikhar Dhawan(c), Matthew Short, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Sam Curran, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh.
PBKS impact subs: Nathan Ellis, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide, Mohit Rathee, Shivam Singh.
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