Initially a chess player who represented India at junior national championships, Yuzvendra Chahal has now become one of the most bankable and impactful leg-spinners in international cricket. With his attacking leg-spin, Chahal has won matches for his teams singlehandedly. Even though he didn’t get early breakthroughs, he made the best out of the opportunity whenever he got one. During National Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy in 2009, Chahal claimed 34 wickets to conclude as leading wicket-taker in the tournament. Despite being bought by Mumbai Indians for the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2011, he didn’t get much chances to play with the league powerhouse camp. The Haryana spinner got the best of his career with Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), for whom he ended up being the highest wicket-taker in 2015 and 2016. All this IPL success with RCB helped Chahal impress the team selectors and he made his international debut on June 11, 2016, playing Zimbabwe in an ODI match at Harare. Subsequent to this, he made his T20I debut on June 18 on the same venue.
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Maxwell rued that he could have finished the game and said he still has a lot of work to do to secure a ticket to the World Cup.
India are scheduled to play Pakistan on June 16 in the upcoming World Cup and the 28-year-old leg-spinner said it is for the BCCI to decide if India should boycott playing the arch-rivals in the tournament.
Wrist spinners Kuldeep and Chahal have become India's preferred choices in the shorter formats over the last 18 months, while Jadeja and R Ashwin have gone down in the pecking order.
Chahal moved up one place to claim the fifth spot, while teammate Bhuvneshwar Kumar jumped six places to attain the 17th spot.
In team Rankings, New Zealand have slipped behind South Africa to fourth place.
Ambati Rayudu scored 90 while Hardik Pandya smashed a 22-ball 45 and took two wickets as India beat New Zealand by 35 runs to take the five-match series 4-1.
It was a historic win for India as they claimed their biggest ever win on New Zealand soil and won their first ever match on Republic Day.
Mohammed Shami was named 'Man of the Match' for his 3/19, but it was the two spinners that ripped through the New Zealand line-up in the 1st ODI in Napier.
Dada said that Dhoni's batting in Australia is really good news for the Indian team with the all-important World Cup to follow.
India became the first visiting team to win a bilateral series across all the formats against Australia in Australia.
Tendulkar took to Twitter to laud Chahal for his outstanding performance, calling him India's 'trump card'. Take a look at what the Master Blaster had to say.
Besides setting his own career best, he also now has the best figure of an Indian in Australia, overtaking players such as Ajit Agarkar and Ravi Shastri.
While captain Kohli reached the 10K mark in a flash to remain in the top spot, leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal enters the top ten rankings for the very first time.
Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who claimed three wickets, was full of praise for the "legends of the game".
India have been invincible in the six-nation tournament as they defeated Pakistan twice, besides notching up wins against Hong Kong and Bangladesh.
India started their 2018 Asia Cup campaign with a 26-run win over Hong Kong, who rode on Nizakat Khan's 92-run knock to put up an impressive fight.
Sehwag pointed out that the Indian spinners will be up against batsmen who are brought up playing spin.
India begin their campaign against minnows Hong Kong on September 18 before taking on arch-rivals Pakistan in a marquee clash the next day.
The Virat Kohli-led No.1 Test side failed to put up a fight in the first two matches, but Chahal is hopeful that the visitors will bounce back in the remaining three matches.
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