From a 17-year-old leg-spinner makin♐g his debut with the Rising Pune Supergiant in IPL 2017 to an 1🎉8-year-old leggie bought by the Mumbai Indians for a whopping 1.9 crore at the 2018 IPL auction, Rahul Chahar sure made headlines in a short span of just one year.
On his IPL debut for RPS, he managed to get the big wicket of Hashim Amla. A deceptive googly mixed up with a stock ⛎leg break delivery is a huge highlight of his expertise. Despite picking up 10 wickets in 4 Youth ODIs while playing for the Under-19 team in England, he was not selected for the U-19 World Cup.
But the unstoppable youngster put 𝓀up a greꦰat show with the ball in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy tournament by scalping 6 wickets in 4 games.
Here are the top 10 interesting facts about the rising star from Rajasthan, Rahul Chahar:
1꧅.) Rahul used to bowl quick like his cousin Deepak Chahar but finally became a leggie after the latter told him that he was betterܫ in the leg-spin department.
2.) He stopped attending school once he decide😼d t🍸o be a cricketer and focus on the game. He gives all the credit to his paternal uncle and his brother for his growth and success at such a young age.
3.) He made his First-Class debut for Rajasthan against Odis🅺ha in the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy when he was onlyও 16 years old.
4.) Soon, in fact, in the ve🐭ry same season, he was roped in by Rajasthan to play against Madhya Pradesh in the Vijay Hazare trophy. He pl🧜ayed 5 matches and took 6 wickets with best figures of 3/33 in the tournament.
5.) The Rising Pune S💟upergiant bought him for his base price 🐻of INR 10 Lakh at the 2017 IPL auction. He played only 3 games and his performance included 2 wickets at an economy of 8.29.
6.) In October 2017, BCCI had named Deepak Chahar in the Board President XI squad that wa🀅s all geared up to play against opponents New Zealand but later, the Board admitted that they had made a mistake, and Rahul was included in the squad. But he did not get a chance to play in any of the 2 games.
7.) Rahul kept in touch with his RPS teammate Imran Tahir and got the golden opportunity to receive man🎀y match-winning tips from the South African leggie.
8.) He said he greatly admired MS Dhoni and Ajinkya Rahane for being “good humans first”.
9.) His IPL deb🌠ut was his T20 debut as well. He had no prior experience in playing in the T20 format of the game.
10.) He made his T20I debut against th൩e West Indies in Guyana on August 🐈6.