T20 World Cup: This pacer is running like a rocket… took twice as many wickets as Bumrah, 4 times as many as Cummins, 6 times as many as Starc

New Delhi. A very interesting game is going on in the T20 World Cup 2024. Batsmen are in need of runs, while bowlers are collecting wickets with both hands. Among these bowlers, what can be said about Fazalhaq Farooqi. It is as if a storm has come in the bowling of this Afghan pacer. Whoever comes in front of him/her, consider him/her a failure. 23-year-old Fazalhaq Farooqi has taken 12 wickets in just 3 matches.

In the T20 World Cup 2024, Fazalhaq Farooqi took 3 wickets for just 16 runs against Papua New Guinea on Friday. he/she was named Player of the Match for this performance. What is an interesting statistic is that the performance for which Farooqi was named Player of the Match is his/her weakest performance in the tournament. Farooqi had earlier taken 4 wickets against New Zealand and 5 against Uganda. Fazalhaq Farooqi was named Player of the Match against Uganda.

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In the list of taking most wickets in T20 World Cup 2024, big legends are far behind Fazalhaq Farooqui. You can guess this from the fact that Jasprit Bumrah, who is considered the best pacer of the present time, has not been able to take even half the wickets of this Afghan pacer. Whereas Bumrah has played the same number of matches as Farooqui.

Bumrah took 5 wickets in 3 matches
Jasprit Bumrah has taken 5 wickets in 3 matches at an average of 9.00 and an economy rate of 4.09. Star pacer Mitchell Starc of ODI World Cup 2023 and IPL 2024 has been able to take only 2 wickets in 3 matches. Pat Cummins has 4 wickets in 2 matches. Shaheen Afridi, who is called the storm of Pakistan, also has only 2 wickets to his/her name. Apart from Afridi, the team of Bumrah and Cummins-Stark is winning continuously.

Pandya and Arshdeep took 7-7 wickets
After Fazalhaq Farooqui, three bowlers are jointly at second place in the list of most wicket-takers in T20 World Cup 2024. South Africa’s Enrique Norkia, West Indies’ Alzari Joseph and Australia’s Adam Zampa have taken 8-8 wickets so far. After these three, Akil Hussain, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Rishhad Hussain come next. All four have taken 7-7 wickets. Marcus Stoinis, Taskin Ahmed, Haris Rauf and Mehran Khan have taken 6-6 wickets.

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