Fazalhaq Farooqui bowled the most lethal bowling (Photo: PTI)
The year was 2022 when Afghanistan’s Fazalhaq Farooqui, playing in Australia’s Big Bash League, was thrown out for breaking the rules. Two years later, the same player has created history in ILT20. He has given a strong performance, which has never been seen before in the history of this tournament. He has bowled the most lethal bowling in the history of the tournament. Not only this, the record of Pakistani bowler was also broken during this period. Including that one record, a total of 8 records were broken in the very first match of ILT20.
5 wickets for 16 runs, best bowling of the tournament
The first match of ILT20 was played between Dubai Capitals and Mumbai Indians Emirates. Fazalhaq Faruqui was a part of Mumbai Indians Emirates in this match. The right-arm fast bowler took 5 wickets for 16 runs against Dubai Capitals, who came to bat first, which is the best bowling figure in the history of the tournament.
MIE did not win despite Fazalhaq’s lethal bowling
Due to this charismatic performance of Fazalhaq with the ball, Dubai Capitals team’s score reached 133 runs in 20 overs. But despite this his team could not win. Mumbai Indians Emirates lost the match by 1 run. However, between the results of win and loss, 8 records were seen broken in this match.
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These are those 8 records, which were made in the first match
Fazalhaq Farooqui not only made the first record of lethal bowling, apart from this he also became the highest wicket taker for Mumbai Indians Emirates. In this case he broke Waqar’s record of 17 wickets.
The second record was made by Andre Fletcher of playing the maximum number of 13 T20 matches for Mumbai Indians Emirates. In this matter he left Trent Boult behind.
Similarly, Sikandar Raza became the player who played the most matches for Dubai Capitals. He broke Sam Billings’ record by playing his 14th T20.
Sikandar Raza made another record. Breaking Sam Billings’ record of 320 runs, he became the highest scorer for Dubai Capitals with 323 runs. Now this number of runs may increase further.
There was a partnership of 79 runs in the match between Nicholas Pooran and Akil Hussain for the 5th wicket. This is a new record for the biggest partnership for this wicket by Mumbai Indians Emirates. Earlier this record was in the name of Robin Uthappa and Akil Hussain, who had added 49 runs.
Nicholas Pooran became the player with the highest score of 3 fifty plus for Mumbai Indians Emirates. He left Kusal Perera behind.
A total of 265 runs were scored in the match between DC and MIE, which is a new record for the lowest score in the match between these two teams.
Similarly, the victory margin of this match was also a record. Dubai beat Mumbai by 1 run which is the smallest margin in terms of runs.
