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Indian team’s veteran batsman Rohit Sharma has scored a unique hat-trick as a fielder in the third ODI against Afghanistan. In this match being played in Chennai, after winning the toss and coming to bat first, Prasidh Krishna sent the top-3 of the Afghan team to the pavilion, in which Rohit also had an important contribution. He took 3 consecutive catches in the slip. With this Rohit achieved a big achievement. Rohit became the fourth Indian fielder to contribute to the first 3 wickets of a team to fall. He made it to the club of Sourav Ganguly, Manoj Tiwari and Suresh Raina.

This record was made by the jugalbandi of Rohit and Prasidh

Another big record has been made due to the Jugalbandi of Rohit and Prasidh in Chennai. Rohit equaled the Indian record of VVS Laxman and Shikhar Dhawan in taking 3 catches off the same bowler in an ODI innings. Laxman took 3 catches off Irfan Pathan’s balls against Zimbabwe in 2004. Dhawan had achieved this feat on the balls of Jasprit Bumrah against Bangladesh in 2018.

Prasidh entered Bumrah’s club

Right-arm fast bowler Prasidh took another wicket inside the powerplay after giving 3 wickets to Afghanistan for 28 runs. He got Darwish Rasooli caught out by Shreyas Iyer in the 10th over. With this, he became the sixth bowler to take 4 or more wickets in the first 10 overs in ODI. He entered the club of Mohammad Siraj, Javagal Srinath and Bumrah. Siraj has done this feat twice. Interestingly, Siraj has wreaked havoc against Sri Lanka both the times.

Indian bowlers who took 4 plus wickets in the first 10 overs

• Mohammed Siraj – 5 wickets vs Sri Lanka, Colombo (2023)
• Javagal Srinath – 4 wickets vs Sri Lanka, Johannesburg (2003)
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 4 wickets vs Sri Lanka, Port of Spain (2013)
• Jasprit Bumrah – 4 wickets vs England, Oval (2022)
• Mohammed Siraj – 4 wickets vs Sri Lanka, Thiruvananthapuram (2023)
• Arshdeep Singh – 4 wickets vs South Africa, Johannesburg (2023)
• Prasidh Krishna – 4 wickets vs Afghanistan, Chennai (2026)