Vijay Hazare Trophy: At 37, Ishant Sharma completes 200 wickets in List A cricket

New Delhi: It was a memorable return to Delhi for pacer Ishant Sharma after seven years as the Indian bowler completed 200 List A wickets in the side's Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinal clash against Vidarbha on Tuesday. At 37 years of age, Ishant returned to captaincy at the BCCI Centre for Excellence Ground 2 in Bengaluru and the veteran marked the occasion by completing a memorable feat.

The Indian pace bowler completed the milestone after dismissing Vidarbha opener Atharva Taide in the 25th over after the team was put into bat first by Delhi. The dismissal proved to be crucial as Taida had smashed a flamboyant 72-ball 62-run mark, stitching a 90-run partnership for the second wicket with Dhruv Shorey.

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Requiring just one wicket heading into the contest, Ishant completed the landmark using the old ball ending up a disciplined spell. Out of his total 200 wickets in List A cricket, 115 have come in ODIs after he made his debut in 2007 for the Indian national team. Ishant, though, got ignored from the national Indian national set up since 2016 but in the second half of his career, he turned into a red-ball specialist finishing 311 wickets in 115 Test matches.

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While he has not played for India in the ODIs since 2016, the right-arm pace bowler has also not been recalled into the Test side since 2021. Overs the last few years, the player has shown excellence in the domestic cricket turning up for Delhi, with his last captaincy opportunity coming for the side in 2019 when he was at the helm of the side in the Syed Mushtaq Ali domestic tournament.

Meanwhile, Vidarbha scored 300/9 in the stipulated 50 overs after batting first in the crucial clash. Ishant ended up claiming two wickets with Navdeep Saini, Nitish Rana and Prince Yadav also claiming as many wickets in the match. While chasing 301, Delhi had lost half of their side still needing almost 150 runs at the time if writing this report.