Ishant Sharma turns into third Indian pacer to take 300 Test wickets

New Delhi: Ishant Sharma on Monday grew to become the third Indian pacer to take 300 wickets within the longest format of the sport. Ishant scalped the wicket of Dan Lawrence on the fourth day of the continued first Test towards England on the MA Chidambaram Stadium and with this, he registered his three hundredth wicket.
The pacer trapped Lawrence proper within the center and the English batsman was adjudged leg-before wicket. The ongoing first Test towards England is Ishant’s 98th Test.

Ishant Sharma turns into the third India pacer after Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan to succeed in the 300-wicket mark in Tests 👏
What an achievement!#INDvENG pic.twitter.com/wEUPiCKHFf
— ICC (@ICC) February 8, 2021

The different two pacers to have taken 300 Test wickets are Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan. Overall, Ishant is the sixth Indian bowler to take 300 Test wickets. Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, and Ravichandran Ashwin are the opposite 5 bowlers who’ve taken 300 wickets in Test cricket.
Ishant had missed the four-match Test sequence towards Australia, and now he has made a comeback within the England sequence.

Earlier on day 4, Washington Sundar performed an unbeaten knock of 85 runs as England bowled out India for 337 within the first session.
As a end result, India gave the guests a lead of 241 runs.

England didn’t implement the comply with on and despatched out Rory Burns and Dominic Sibley to attain runs at a brisk tempo.
In the second innings, England has misplaced the wickets of Rory Burns, Dominic Sibley, and Dan Lawrence.