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 took 27 wickets in the Indian Premier League with the best figures of 5/40.
Yuzvendra Chahal has penned a heartfelt note for Andrew Symonds on Instagram and mentioned that Symonds was his closest man.
Yuzvendra Chahal scripted history as he picked up four wickets in an over, including a hat-trick to dismantle KKR's run chase on Monday, April 18.
Ravi Bishnoi's two-wicket haul was backed up by quality knocks by Rohit Sharma (40) and Suryakumar Yadav (34*) as India defeated West Indies by six wickets in the first T20I here at the Eden Gardens.
Yuzvendra Chahal didn't get even a single bid in the auction from his former IPL team RCB.
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The new Indian captain also confirmed that Ishan Kishan will open the innings with him in the first ODI.
Chahal was a part of the RCB squad since 2014 but he was retained by the franchise ahead of the IPL 2022 mega auctions.
Apart from Shreyas and Chahal, the 10 teams are likely to be involved in bidding war for Indian players like senior opener Shikhar Dhawan, batter Ishan Kishan, the pace duo of Shardul Thakur and Deepak Chahar.
The wrist spinner's childhood coach feels bowlers should also be given a chance to lead the side in modern-day cricket.
Chahar picked up 13 wickets from 11 games in this edition of IPL for MI but was benched during the end-stage. Chahal, with 18 wickets in 15 games, was the second-highest wicket-taker in the RCB team.
Chahal has picked 11 wickets in the UAE and sitting on ninth place in the wicket-takers list with 15 scalps overall so far.
RCB scored 164 for 7 and then restricted Punjab Kings to 158 for 6 largely due to Chahal's spell after a fine opening stand of 91 between Rahul and Mayank Agarwal.
Chahal is happy after a Man-of-the-Match performance against Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday as he gets back into wickets following an indifferent first half of the IPL 2021 season in India.
Wicket-keeper batsman Srikar Bharat commended Yuzvendra Chahal for always remaining one step ahead of the batter after enabling Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) cruise to win over Rajasthan Royals.
Yuzvendra Chahal said that he is "pumped up" for the resumption of the 2021 edition of the IPL.
On Varun Chakravarthy, a product of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Chetan said that he is still a surprise element for most teams across the world.
A BCCI official had earlier in the day said that the squad has left from Colombo but is still waiting at the airport after the fresh cases came to light and are expected to leave later in the day.
Along with Krunal Pandya, Gowtham and Chahal will also have to stay back in Colombo for the time being.
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