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.
Read MoreRavindra Jadeja got hit on his helmet en route to his match-defining 44 off 23 and Chahal was named as the concussion subsitute.
Australia head coach Justin Langer was also unhappy with Chahal stepping in the middle as a concussion substitute.
While Jadeja smashed an unbeaten 44 off 23 balls to propel India to 161 for 7, his head injury turned out to be a blessing in disguise with India unleashing Chahal (3/25 in 4 overs) on an Australian side caught completely off-guard.
Jadeja was hit on the helment during his knock of 44 off 23 and shortly before he had incurred a hamstring injury for which a physio had come in to the field to ease the pain.
Ravindra Jadeja talked about his partnership with Hardik Pandya in the third and final ODI of the series, which proved crucial to the side's 13-run win.
Chahal dismissed Marcus Stoinis on a duck but he proved ineffective against Glenn Maxwell, who played a blistering knock of 45 runs off just 19 deliveries.
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Yuvraj Singh on Sunday predicted the finalists of IPL 2020, and what followed was a hilarious conversation with RCB spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.
Chahal on Friday shared a Hakuna Matata moment with a striking picture of his and Kings XI Punjab batsman Chris Gayle.
The RCB skipper revealed he had no conversation with Yuzvendra Chahal for the last over untill the match went down to the last ball and revealed what was the plan at the end.
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On Monday evening, Chahal returned with brilliant figures of 1/12 from his four overs and played a crucial role in RCB's emphatic 82-run win over KKR at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
Spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sundar turn architects of the win after De Villiers’ 33-ball 77 powers RCB to 194/2.
Yuzvendra Chahal took the wicket of MS Dhoni, as RCB defeated CSK by 37 runs on Saturday.
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