Kuldeep Yadav Created New World Record: The first match of the three-match ODI series between India and South was played on Sunday i.e. November 30, 2025 at the JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi. Team India played brilliantly in this match. Where Virat Kohli scored his 52nd record century and former captain Rohit Sharma scored his 60th half-century in ODIs. Apart from the excellent performance of these two, star spinner Kuldeep Yadav overtook Australia’s legendary leg spinner Shane Warne in taking 4 wickets the most number of wickets against South Africa.
Kuldeep bowled brilliantly in Ranchi ODI
Kuldeep Yadav played an important role in Team India’s victory by bowling brilliantly in Ranchi ODI. In this high-scoring match, Kuldeep took 4 wickets for 68 runs at an economy of 6.80 in 10 overs. Kuldeep first dismissed Tony De Georgi for 39 runs and sent him to the pavilion. After this, he dismissed Marco Jansen and Matthew Britzke in the space of three balls in the 34th over. These two batsmen had made a partnership of 97 runs in just 68 balls for the sixth innings. Kuldeep dismissed Yansen after playing a quick inning of 70 runs in 39 balls. Soon after, he dismissed Matthew Britzke for 72 runs in 80 balls and Kuldeep got his fourth wicket in the form of Prenelan Subrayen.
It’s Kuldeep Yadav again 🤷♂️
A nicely bowled wrong’un as he completes his spell with figures of 4/68 👏
KL Rahul with the catch 🙌
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Kuldeep broke Shane Warne’s record
Kuldeep Yadav was successful in taking four wickets against South Africa in Ranchi ODI. This was the fourth time that he has taken four wickets in an ODI match. Earlier, Kuldeep had also achieved such a feat in Cape Town and Gakerha in 2018 and in Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi in 2022. Kuldeep has made the record of taking four wickets the maximum number of times against South Africa as a spin bowler. Earlier this record was in the names of Shane Warne and Yuzvendra Chahal.
