Star Indian pacer Arshdeep Singh will be part of a star-studded pace attack with Mohammed Shami, who will make a comeback to the national team after a 15-month hiatus due to injury in the five-match T20I series against England scheduled to begin from Wednesday (January 25) at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Arshdeep, who was the highest wicket-taker in the 2024 T20 World Cup and played a key role in India's historic triumph under Rohit Sharma's captaincy has become the mainstay of the Indian pacer bowling unit in the shortest format. After missing the 2023 Cricket World Cup, the 25-year-old has also found a place in the Indian ODI team for the 2025 Champions Trophy.

After making his debut in July 2022, Arshdeep has played 60 matches and taken 95 wickets at an economy of 8.32 at an average of 18.10. In the South Africa T20I series in November, he wrote his name in the history books by becoming India's leading wicket-taker in T20Is among pacers.

Arshdeep has the chance to create history against England and break Yuzvendra Chahal's all-time record. The Indian pace attack spearhead needs just two wickets to become India's leading wicket-taker in the shortest format of the game. Chahal currently leads the list with 96 wickets in 80 games.

Player	Matches	Wickets
Yuzvendra Chahal	80	96
Arshdeep Singh	60	60
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	87	90
Jasprit Bumrah	70	89
Hardik Pandya	109	89

While Jasprit Bumrah won the Player of the Tournament in the 2024 T20 World Cup, Arshdeep was the tournament's joint-highest wicket-taker alongside Afghanistan's Fazalhaq Farooqi with 17 scalps in eight games. He also took 10 wickets in six games in the 2022 edition of the mega event in Australia, which was the most by an Indian in their run to the semi-final.

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