Dharamshala, December 14 (IANS). Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya created history in the third T20 match against South Africa. Pandya took the only wicket of Tristan Stubbs in this match. With this, Pandya scored a ‘century of wickets’ in T20 international cricket. Hardik Pandya became the first seamer to score more than 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in T20 international cricket. Apart from him, the three all-round spinners Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Nabi and Sikandar Raza achieved this feat. Hardik Pandya is the third Indian to score a ‘century of wickets’ in this format. Before him, Arshdeep Singh (109) and Jasprit Bumrah (101) achieved this position. On the other hand, Varun Chakraborty bowled 4 overs in this match and took 2 wickets for just 11 runs. Chakravarthy became the second Indian to take 50 T20 International wickets in the shortest number of matches. He achieved this milestone in 32 matches, while Kuldeep Yadav achieved it in 30 matches. In this match played at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium on Sunday, the South African team lost the toss and batted first and were reduced to 117 runs. The visiting team lost 5 wickets with the score of 44. Meanwhile, captain Aiden Markram scored 61 runs in 46 balls with 2 sixes and 6 fours but could not take the team to a challenging score. Apart from captain Markram, Donovan Ferreira played an innings of 20 runs, while Anrich Nortje added 12 runs to the team’s account, but no other batsman could reach double figures. For India, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty and Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets each, while Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dubey took 1 wickets each. The teams of India and South Africa are tied 1-1 in the T20 series of five matches. Both teams would like to win this game and take the lead in the series. –IANS RSG Share this story Tags