3 Players With The Best Bowling Figures On Their Birthday

Cricketers have a busy schedule during their active careers. Players spend a lot of time on the field while staying away from their loved ones for a long time. Sometimes, they even have to play on their birthdays, as they have to fulfill their commitment to play for the country.

Birthday is a special day for any person and cricketers are no different. There are many players who have toiled hard on the cricket field on their birthdays in the past.

There are few players who also bagged the limelight while playing cricket matches on their birthdays, coming up with an astonishing performance on the field. Here we take a glance at 3 players with the best bowling figures on their birthday in T20Is.

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3 Players With The Best Bowling Figures On Their Birthday

3. Yuvraj Singh- 3/23

Yuvraj Singh bags the third spot in this list. The former Indian player celebrates his birthday on December 12 every year. In the year 2009 on his birthday, the left-arm spinner picked 3 wickets for 23 runs in a T20I match against Sri Lanka. In the match played at Mohali in India, Sri Lanka batted first and scored a mammoth total of 206/7 in the 1st innings.

While pacers Ishant Sharma picked 1 wicket and Yusuf Pathan grabbed 2, Yuvraj Singh was the highest wicket-taker with 3 wickets in his just 3 overs. Later, Yuvraj also scored unbeaten 60 runs. India managed to win the match by 6 wickets, after reaching 211 runs in 19.1 overs. Yuvraj Singh was awarded player of the match for impeccable performance on his birthday.

2. Imran Tahir- 4/21

Imran Tahir grabs the second spot in this list. The South African cricketer celebrates his birthday on March 27. While facing the Netherlands on his birthday in the year 2014, Tahir came up with bowling figures of 21/4. During T20I World Cup 2014, South Africa faced the Netherlands in the group stage on March 27, 2014.

Batting first, South Africa put up 145/9 on the scoreboard. Hashim Amla with 43 runs off 22 balls was the highest run-scorer for the team, which crushed against a five-wicket haul by Netherlands’ Ahsan Malik. The Netherlands made a good attempt to the chase with their opener Stephan Myburgh smashing a half-century (51 off 28).

However, leg-spinner Tahir scalped 4 crucial wickets while giving away just 21 runs in his 4 overs. He dismissed three batsmen of the middle-order, sending the Netherlands team on backfoot. The nail-biting thriller eventually witnessed South Africa emerging champions by just 6 runs. Imran Tahir was adjudged player of the match for his match-winning bowling spell.

1. Wanindu Hasaranga- 4/9

Wanindu Hasranga clinches the top spot in this list. In a recent T20I encounter against India, the Sri Lankan all-rounder came up with a match-winning show on his birthday. India and Sri Lanka faced each other in the 3^rd T20I on July 29, 2021, with the game being postponed by one day. The right-arm spinner Hasranga picked 4 wickets for 9 runs in the match, devastating the Indian batting.

Opting to bat first, the second-string team of India led by Shikhar Dhawan planned to put a high total on the scoreboard. However, opener Dhawan was gone for a duck. The middle-order batsmen could cope up with the bowling attack by Sri Lanka, losing their wickets cheaply.

Hasaranga with his leg-spin attack crumbled the Indian players and picked 4 wickets for just 9 runs in his 4-overs spell. Sri Lanka restricted India to their lowest-ever T20I total of 81-8. Sri Lanka comfortably won the match by 7 wickets and also won the T20I series 2-1. The birthday boy Hasranga was awarded player of the match as well as series, which made his birthday even more wonderful and worth a day to remember in the future.