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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Yuzvendra Chahal said that he will prepare himself for the World Cup in England after seeing the wickets there.
Kuldeep Yadav said that his IPL performance won't affect his World Cup form and he is back on track on getting his basics right.
Yuzvendra Chahal said that the experience of other players in the team has been helpful for the pair.
After finishing last in IPL 2017 and 6th in IPL 2018, Virat Kohli's RCB is all set to finish last again in this year's Indian Premier League.
MS Dhoni smashed 24 off the last over but failed to chase the required 26 as Bangalore held their nerves to seal a one-run win.
Chahal, who returned with figures of 2-27 last night, has so far grabbed 72 wickets from 41 ODI games for India.
RCB spinner Chahal feels that the team needs to start playing like a team and should not depend on a couple of players when the team is under pressure.
The RCB fielders dropped a number of catches and Kohli said they can't afford to commit such mistakes if they want to finish on the winning side.
The former India left-arm pacer, however, said RCB will find its mojo if it wins a few close encounters.
Asked if things are getting more and more difficult for RCB after their fourth loss of the season, Chahal said it was important to stay positive.
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In the evening Dhoni and his wife Sakshi threw a dinner party for the team at their farmhouse in Jharkhand's capital.
The wrist spinner duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav have been regular feature in India's ODI format confining finger spinner R Ashwin to the sidelines and relegating Ravindra Jadeja as the third specialist spinner.
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Maxwell rued that he could have finished the game and said he still has a lot of work to do to secure a ticket to the World Cup.
India are scheduled to play Pakistan on June 16 in the upcoming World Cup and the 28-year-old leg-spinner said it is for the BCCI to decide if India should boycott playing the arch-rivals in the tournament.
Wrist spinners Kuldeep and Chahal have become India's preferred choices in the shorter formats over the last 18 months, while Jadeja and R Ashwin have gone down in the pecking order.
Chahal moved up one place to claim the fifth spot, while teammate Bhuvneshwar Kumar jumped six places to attain the 17th spot.
In team Rankings, New Zealand have slipped behind South Africa to fourth place.
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