India registered their best-ever successful chase in the T20Is after winning the first match against Australia by two wickets. Three Indian players, including Arshdeep Singh, were dismissed on ducks at Visakhapatnam's ACA-VDCA Stadium on Thursday.
Ravi Bishnoi has played only one match in this series so far and went wicketless. Perhaps, he was left out after featuring only in the second T20I of the series that India lost.
Kuldeep Yadav played with Axar Patel and Yuzvendra Chahal in a three-man spin attack in the first game and took a wicket.
Ravi Bishnoi recently featured in IPL 2023 for Lucknow Super Giants. He last played for India in October 2022.
India is set to tour New Zealand and Bangladesh following the T20 World Cup in Australia. The BCCI announced squads for New Zealand and Bangladesh on Monday.
Ravi Bishnoi's two-wicket haul was backed up by quality knocks by Rohit Sharma (40) and Suryakumar Yadav (34*) as India defeated West Indies by six wickets in the first T20I here at the Eden Gardens.
The 21-year-old leg spinner made a dream debut for India; snapping two wickets for 17 runs in his full quota of four overs, a performance that earned him the Player of the Match Award.
Bishnoi (3/24) and Mohammed Shami (2/14) helped Punjab Kings overcome Sunrisers Hyderabad by five runs in a low-scoring thriller.
Young leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi snared three wickets as Punjab Kings dished out a clinical bowling display to beat struggling Sunrisers Hyderabad by five runs in a low-scoring but entertaining Indian Premier League match here on Saturday.
Bishnoi ran to his right from deep mid-wicket and dived to pluck the ball, sending Narine back for a duck.
The Punjab Kings spinner got rid of the well-set Suryakumar Yadav, who tried to reverse-sweep the bowler over backward point but got a top edge to Chris Gayle.
Players like Ravi Bishnoi, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Tewatia, Devdutt Padikkal, T Natarajan, Kartik Tyagi have impressed many in the cricket fraternity with both their skills and ability to handle pressure while playing against the best of cricketers in the Indian Premier League.
While KXIP entered the tournament as a side with a heavy batting line-up, having the likes of KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Glenn Maxwell, Nicholas Pooran to name a few, they have found unlikely heroes in their two leg-spinners -- Ravi Bishnoi and Murugan Ashwin.
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