Mohammed Siraj IPL records: Gujarat Titans (GT) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 7 wickets in the 19th match of IPL season 18. In this match, ‘Local Boy’ Mohammad Siraj for Gujarat took 4 wickets for only 17 runs and broke the back of Hyderabad’s batting unit. This was Siraj’s best performance in the IPL so far. He was also adjudged Player of the Match for this strong performance.
Not only this, Siraj achieved another major achievement during this period – he also broke the record of Indian bowler Zaheer Khan, completing a wicket century in IPL.
Flops were in the first match, now exploded
Significantly, Siraj’s first match for GT was against Punjab Kings (PBKS), in which he spent 54 runs without taking any wickets. But this Hyderabad player proved himself against his old team SRH. Siraj made a brilliant start with the new ball and dismissed Travis Head on the sixth ball of the first over of the match. In the third over, he walked Abhishek Sharma. In the first three overs, he took 2 important wickets for 14 runs. In the last over, he also sent Aniket Verma and Simarjeet to the pavilion.
Wickets in IPL completed
Siraj has so far taken a total of 97 matches an average of around 29 and 102 wickets with an economy rate of 8.60. SRH opener Abhishek Sharma became the 100th victim of his IPL career. With this, he has become the 26th bowler to take 100 wickets in the history of IPL.
Zaheer Khan’s record broke
Siraj completed 100 wickets in 97 matches in IPL, while Zaheer Khan achieved this feat in 99 matches. In this way Siraj overtook him. Harshal Patel and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (81 innings) are jointly ranked first among the fastest 100 wickets in IPL.
Indian fast bowler who took 100+ wickets:
Bhubaneswar Kumar – 183 Jaspreet Bumrah – 165 Umesh Yadav – 144 Sandeep Sharma – 141 Harshal Patel – 139 Mohit Sharma – 133 Mohammed Shami – 130 Ashish Nehra – 106 Vinay Kumar – 106 Vinay Kumar – 105 Mohammad Siraj – 102* Zaheer Khan – 102 Shardul Thakur – 101
Siraj’s IPL career
Siraj started his IPL career in 2017 with Sunrisers Hyderabad. He was bought by Sunrisers from a base price of Rs 20 lakh for Rs 2.6 crore. He played six matches for the Orange Army and took 10 wickets at an average of 21.20. After this, in 2018, RCB bought him for Rs 2.20 crore. He took 83 wickets in 87 matches for this team. He was released by RCB at the end of last year. During the IPL mega auction in November, Gujarat bought him for Rs 12.25 crore. So far this decision has been proved correct for Gujarat.
Siraj has played 4 matches so far this season and has taken nine wickets. In the last match against RCB, he took 3 wickets for just 19 runs in 4 overs and was also awarded the Player of the Match Award.
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