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| Full name | Rahul Desraj Chahar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 August 1999 Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Deepak Chahar (cousin) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| T20I debut (cap 81) | 6 August 2019 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 20 March 2021 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016/17–present | Rajasthan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Rising Pune Supergiants (squad no. 1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 – present | Mumbai Indians (squad no. 1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rahul Desraj Chahar (born 4 August 1999) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Rajasthan in domestic cricket. He made his international debut for the India cricket team in August 2019 against West Indies.[1]He later went on to play for the Indian Cricket Team in 2021 against England. He was also a part of the Indian Test Team against England in 2021. In the Indian Premier League he plays for the Mumbai Indians. He has been in the team when they won 2 trophies in 2019 and 2020. In 2019, he was awarded the Dream 11 Game Changer of the Tournament.
Early life
Rahul was born to Desraj Singh Chahar and Usha Chahar. His paternal uncle, Lokendra Singh Chahar is his cricket coach who trained him and Deepak Chahar together. Rahul started playing cricket at the age of 8 years after watching his elder brother Deepak Chahar. He started off as a fast bowler but later realised his actual talent was in spinning the ball. His cousin, Deepak Chahar is also an Indian international cricketer.[2][3][4] Rahul got engaged to long-time girlfriend Ishani in 2019.[5]
Domestic career
He made his first-class debut for Rajasthan in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 5 November 2016.[6] He made his List A debut for Rajasthan in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 25 February 2017.[7]
In February 2017, he was bought by the Rising Pune Supergiant team for the 2017 Indian Premier League for 10 lakhs.[8] He made his Twenty20 cricket (T20) debut in the 2017 Indian Premier League on 8 April 2017.[9] In January 2018, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians in the 2018 IPL auction.[10]
He was the leading wicket-taker for Rajasthan in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with twenty dismissals in nine matches.[11] In October 2018, he was named in India C's squad for the 2018–19 Deodhar Trophy.[12] He won the Dream 11 Game changer award in the IPL 2019 after his outstanding performance.
In August 2019, he was named in the India Green team's squad for the 2019–20 Duleep Trophy.[13][14]
International career
In July 2019, he was named for India's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the series against the West Indies.[15] He made his T20I debut against the West Indies on 6 August 2019.[16] In January 2021, he was named as one of five standby players in India's Test squad for their series against England.[17] The following month, he was added to India's squad ahead of the first Test.[18]
In June 2021, he was named in India's One Day International (ODI) squad for their series against Sri Lanka.[19]
References
- ↑ "Rahul Chahar". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ↑ "Ranji Trophy: After Deepak Chahar, 'doosra' in household as Rahul Chahar takes nine wickets". The Indian Express. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ↑ "Big brother, little brother - The Chahars' India dream". Cricbuzz. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ↑ Acharya, Shayan. "IPL 2019: A brotherly gathering". Sportstar. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ↑ "Rahul Chahar gets engaged to long-time girlfriend". cricketcountry.
- ↑ "Ranji Trophy, Group B: Rajasthan v Odisha at Patiala, Nov 5-8, 2016". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
- ↑ "Vijay Hazare Trophy, Group C: Madhya Pradesh v Rajasthan at Chennai, Feb 25, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ↑ "List of players sold and unsold at IPL auction 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ↑ "Indian Premier League, 4th match: Kings XI Punjab v Rising Pune Supergiant at Indore, Apr 8, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ↑ "List of sold and unsold players". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ↑ "Vijay Hazare Trophy, 2016/17 - Rajasthan: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ↑ "Rahane, Ashwin and Karthik to play Deodhar Trophy". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ↑ "Shubman Gill, Priyank Panchal and Faiz Fazal to lead Duleep Trophy sides". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ↑ "Duleep Trophy 2019: Shubman Gill, Faiz Fazal and Priyank Panchal to lead as Indian domestic cricket season opens". Cricket Country. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ↑ "MS Dhoni out of West Indies tour, Hardik Pandya rested". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ↑ "3rd T20I, India tour of United States of America and West Indies at Providence, Aug 6 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ↑ "India's squad for first two Tests against England announced". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ↑ "Knee injury rules Axar Patel out of first England Test". Crickbuzz. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ↑ "Shikhar Dhawan to captain India on limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 June 2021.