The Kangaroo team won the first match of the three-match T20 series between Australia and Pakistan, while the second match of the series between the two teams is being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. In this match, the Australian team won the toss and decided to bat first, in which they could score only 147 runs in 20 overs. The Pakistani team once again saw havoc with the bowling of Haris Rauf, who has bowled brilliantly in this tour, taking 4 wickets for just 22 runs in his 4 overs and achieving a major feat as well.
Haris Rauf became the joint-highest wicket-taker for Pakistan
Haris Rauf has now moved into the joint first position for taking the most wickets in T20 Internationals for Pakistan. When Haris Rauf took the wicket of Australian Xavier Bartlett in the second T20 match, it was his 107th wicket in T20 Internationals and with this he now became the joint highest wicket taker for Pakistan along with Shadab Khan. Only 2 bowlers have managed to take more than 100 wickets in T20 Internationals so far for Pakistan, namely Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan. Shaheen Afridi’s name is third in this list with 96 T20 international wickets. Haris Rauf achieved this feat in the 72nd innings of his 74th T20 International match.
Haris Rauf’s career is coming up so far
If we talk about Haris Rauf’s international career so far, he has taken 107 wickets in 74 T20 matches, while Rauf has taken 79 wickets in 40 ODI matches at an average of 24.58. Apart from this, Rauf has got the chance to play only one Test match for Pakistan so far, in which he managed to take one wicket. In the third T20 of the series against Australia, Haris Rauf will have a chance to take over the number one spot outright by displacing Shadab Khan.
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