South Africa's Johan Botha has the best figures by an off-spinner against India in T20Is. 3/16 Johan Botha Nottingham 2009 India were up against South Africa in the 24th match of the 2009 T20 World Cup at Nottingham. South Africa batted first and were restricted to 130 due to some tight bowling from RavindraJadeja. However, India could not chase down the target. The team got a good start with GautamGambhir and Rohit Sharma combining for a 48 run partnership but things started to go awry after that. The chief trouble maker for India was off spinner Johan Botha who took 3 wickets from his four overs while giving away just 16 runs at an economy rate of 4. Only three Indian players could reach 20. After opening batters GautamGambhir and Rohit Sharma were dismissed for 21 and 29 respectively, Yuvraj Singh made a run a ball 25 but there were no other contributions from the Indian batters and the team could not make the best of the start and lost the match at 12 runs. Johan Botha registered the best figures by an off spinner against India in T20 Internationals. 3/25 Roston Chase Kolkata 2022 Roston Chase was not supposed to feature in the three match T20 series between India and West Indies but Jason Holder was injured before the first match of the series and Chase was given a chance. He bowled so brilliantly that he was retained in the 11 and Fabian Allen was in fact dropped. He repaid the faith of the management in the second T20 International as he recorded the second best figures by an off spinner against India in T20 Internationals. Batting first, India were going on the right track at 72 for 2 from the first 9 overs. This is when Roston Chase came into the picture. He not only controlled run scoring but also picked up three crucial wickets. He first dismissed Rohit Sharma for just 19 runs and then also picked up the wickets of ViratKohli and Suryakumar Yadav to break the back of the Indian batting lineup. Despite that Rishabh Pant and VenkateshIyer stepped on the gas towards the end and blasted 186 runs. India bowled out West Indies for 178 in reply and won the match by 8 runs.
