India, Feb. 23 -- Hardik Pandya provided a terrific contribution to India's bowling innings, taking two wickets including the crucial opening scalp of Babar Azam to begin the wicket-taking for his team. Pandya's flexibility and all-round ability has been a massive advantage for India, allowing them to play a long batting lineup thanks to his bowling ability.

Pandya brought up his 200th international wicket in this match, and in doing so, became only the sixth Indian player in history to rack up 4000 international runs as well as 200 international wickets.

Pandya has 17 Test wickets, 94 T20 wickets, and now 89 wickets in ODI cricket. He also has 1800+ runs in both T20Is and ODIs, and 500+ runs in Tests. Babar was Hardik's 199th wicket, w...