India left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh equalled the document for probably the most wickets taken in a single T20 World Cup match throughout the remaining towards South Africa on the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday.
Arshdeep achieved the feat with the dismissal of Quinton de Kock, who scored a 31-ball 39, and scalped his seventeenth wicket of the continuing T20 World Cup. He levelled the document of Afghanistan’s left-arm pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi, who additionally picked 17 wickets on this version of the T20 World Cup.
MOST WICKETS IN A SINGLE TOURNAMENT
- Arshdeep Singh (India) – 17 wickets in 29 overs – 2024
- Fazalhaq Farooqi (Afghanistan) – 17 wickets in 25.2 overs – 2024
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka) – 16 wickets in 30 overs – 2021
- Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka) – 15 wickets in 24 overs – 2012
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka) – 15 wickets in 31 overs – 2022