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India is set to begin its white-ball season with a five-match T20I series with England. The first match is to be played on January 22 in Kolkata at the Eden Gardens during which T20I squad will be picked, and Hardik Pandya will certainly be a core component of the Indian T20I squad as he will be looking to make a contribution with bat and ball. This might prove to be interesting because the former Indian vice-captain is about to achieve his major goal.

When it comes to hardik pandya biography, people want to know how he has taken 14 wickets out of all T20 matches played against England. If he gets 6 more wickets in the coming T20I series against England, he will be the first Indian to take 20 wickets in T20I matches against England. If Hardik gets 3 more wickets in the upcoming T20 series, he will have the highest T20I wickets in the world for an Indian bowler against England, surpassing Yuzvendra Chahal.

These are the wicket-takers from India in T20Is against England out of the total higher than six.

Yuzvendra Chahal- 16

Hardik Pandya- 14

Jasprit Bumrah - 9

Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 9

If Pandya can achieve 11 more wickets in the matches he will leapfrog Chris Jordan to be the highest wicket-taker in India England T20Is contest.

Hardik Pandya's T20 Alround Record by the Numbers

Hardik Pandya musters 1,700 T20I runs while within the shortest format of the game, he has claimed 89 wickets for India. If he picks up his 11 more wickets, he will achieve his 100 T20I milestone. If he manages to do this in the series Pandya will become the first Indian player to achieve 1500 runs and 100 T20I wickets.

Pandya will also become the second player ever after Bangladesh great Shakib Al Hasan. The spin-bowling all-rounder scored, 2,551 runs and took 149 wickets in the short format.

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