Deepak Chahar

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Deepak Chahar
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Chahar in 2019
Personal information
Full name
Deepak Lokendrasingh Chahar
Born (1992-08-07) 7 August 1992 (age 32)
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium
Role Bowling all-rounder
Relations
  • Jaya Chahar (wife)
    ​
    (m. 2022)​
  • Malti Chahar (sister)
  • Rahul Chahar (cousin)
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  223)25 September 2018 v  Afghanistan
Last ODI7 December 2022 v  Bangladesh
ODI shirt no.90
T20I debut(cap  76)8 July 2018 v  England
Last T20I1 December 2023 v  Australia
T20I shirt no.90
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Men's Cricket
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
ACC Asia Cup
Winner 2018 United Arab Emirates
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 December 2022

Deepak Chahar (born 7 August 1992) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right-arm medium pace swing bowler, who plays for Rajasthan in domestic cricket and Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 2018 Asia Cup.

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In 2019, he became the first Indian male cricketer to take a hat-trick in a Twenty20 International (T20I) match. In January 2020, Chahar was awarded with the T20I Performance of the Year award by the International Cricket Council (ICC), after taking six wickets for seven runs against Bangladesh. [1]

Early and personal life

Chahar was born in 1992 in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Lokendra Singh Chahar is retired from the Indian Air Force and his mother, Pushpa Chahar, is a homemaker. He has one elder sibling Malti Chahar, who is a Bollywood film actress. [2] [3] [4]

He proposed to his Delhi-based girlfriend, Jaya Bhardwaj, during his team's last league-stage match of the 2021 Indian Premier League. [5] [6] On 1 June 2022 the couple got married in Agra. [7]

Domestic career

Chahar took eight wickets for 10 runs (8/10) against Hyderabad on his first-class cricket debut in the 2010–11 Ranji Trophy; [8] Hyderabad were bowled out for 21 runs, the lowest total in Ranji Trophy history. Chahar's swing bowling soon earned him a youth contract with Rising Pune Supergiants, an Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket franchise. [9] In October 2016, he worked with international coaches Ian Pont and Catherine Dalton in Jaipur as part of Rajasthan's development camp. [10]

In January 2018, he was bought by Chennai Super Kings in the 2018 IPL auction. [11] In October 2018, he was named in the India B squad for the 2018–19 Deodhar Trophy. [12] In February 2022, he was bought by Chennai Super Kings in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament. [13] However, he was later ruled out of the tournament due to a back injury. [14]

International career

In May 2018, Chahar was named in India's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the team's tour of England. [15] He made his T20I debut on 8 July 2018, [16] taking one wicket. [17] He made his One Day International debut against Afghanistan in September 2018 during the 2018 Asia Cup. [18]

Chahar was selected in the Indian Twenty20 squad against West Indies in 2019, [19] playing in the final match of the series and winning the player of the match award after taking three wickets for four runs. [20] He was subsequently selected for the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh. In the final match of the series he set new best bowling figures in a men's T20I, with six wickets for seven runs from 3.2 overs. [lower-alpha 1] [21] During the series, he also took the first hat-trick by a bowler for India in T20I and his first five-wicket haul in T20Is. [22] [23]

In July 2021, Chahar scored his maiden ODI half-century, [24] and in September was named as one of three reserve players in India's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [25] In January 2022, he scored his second half century in ODIs against South Africa. [26]

Notes

  1. ↑ These figures have since been bettered.

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