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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Chahal's 5/22 included opener Quintin de Kock (20), JP Duminy (25), Khaya Zondo (25), Chris Morris (14) and Morne Morkel (1).
On Wednesday, the pitch bore a brownish look ahead of the opening ODI, in keeping with the rainfall Durban has received of late.
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India have leapfrogged England, New Zealand and the West Indies to move from fifth to the second position in the list, which is led by Pakistan with 124 points.
Kuldeep (3/52) and Chahal (4/52) shared seven wickets and Rohit said he was always confident that the duo would bring Indian back into the game.
Rohit Sharma will lead Team India against Sri Lanka in the limited-overs series starting on December 10 in the absence of regular skipper Virat Kohli.
Kuldeep and Chahal have been instrumental in India's success in limited overs cricket of late and Karthik feels that their self-belief gives team management the confidence and one off day will not matter much in the longer run.
Rohit Sharma said both Chahal and Kuldeep have adapted according to the conditions and match situations.
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