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Rahane record?
Steven LynchSeptember 9, 2014
Ajinkya Rahane took four catches for India against England at Edgbaston. Is he the first fielder to do this in a T20 international? asked Sunit Kumar from Bahrain
Rather surprisingly, perhaps, Ajinkya Rahane's four catches in England's innings at Edgbaston at the weekend was actually the fifth instance of a fielder doing this in a T20 international.
The first was Darren Sammy, for West Indies against Ireland at Providence during the World T20 in 2010, and he has been followed by Peter Borren (Netherlands v Bangladesh at The Hague in 2012), Corey Anderson (New Zealand v South Africa in Port Elizabeth in December 2012), and Dinesh Chandimal (Sri Lanka v Bangladesh in Chittagong in February 2014). Chandimal often keeps wicket, but he wasn't in that game.
No wicketkeeper has made more than four dismissals in a T20 innings either - this has happened seven times, twice each by MS Dhoni and Adam Gilchrist, and once by Wesley Barresi (Netherlands), AB de Villiers and Matt Prior.
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