Yuzvendra Chahal Biography, Profile, Age, Country, Cricket Stats, Wife, Height, Salary, IPL, Wiki, and more

Yuzvendra Chahal is an Indian cricketer who plays for the team India. Yuzvendra Chahal was born on Jul 23, 1990; and as of 2024, he is 34 years old. Yuzvendra Chahal is a bowler from Jind, Haryana and bowls leg spin. In Yuzvendra Chahal’s Odi career, has played 72 matches to date in his ODI career and he took 121 wickets, with an average of 27.13, conceding nearly 5.27 runs per over with a best individual figure of 6 for 42. Yuzvendra Chahal has played 80 matches to date in his T20 career and he took 96 wickets, with an average of 25.09, conceding nearly 8.19 runs per over with a best individual figure of 6 for 25. He holds the 97th position in the ICC ODI bowling rankings with a total of 387 points. Yuzvendra Chahal is ranked 51st position in the ICC T20 bowling rankings with a total of 475 points.

He made his IPL debut in 2013. Yuzvendra Chahal has played 145 matches to date in his IPL career and he took 187 wickets, with an average of 21.69, conceding nearly 7.67 runs per over with a best individual figure of 5/40. In the IPL Auction 2024, the Rajasthan franchise acquired the services of Yuzvendra Chahal for Rs 6.50 Cr.

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Yuzvendra Chahal is an attacking legspinner who first attracted attention when he took 34 wickets in the National Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy in 2009, ending the tournament as its leading wicket-taker. A former chess player who represented India at junior levels, Chahal made his first-class debut for Haryana the same year and was signed by Mumbai Indians in 2011 to be part of their IPL squad.

He didn’t play a game that season but was still named in Mumbai’s Champions League T20 squad the same year. It was in the Champions League that he got an extended run in the side – he featured in the playing XI in all the matches and starred in Mumbai’s win in the final with a spell of 3-0-9-2. However, in the next two years with Mumbai, he managed only one game. His IPL fortunes mirrored those in domestic cricket, where he played in only eight matches in three seasons from 2011-12 onwards and picked up just 16 wickets.

It was with Royal Challengers Bangalore, though, that he found the bulk of his success. He was their highest wicket-taker for two years running since the 2015 season and by virtue of that earned his first India caps in ODIs and T20Is on a tour of Zimbabwe in June 2016. While that series may have been seen as an opportunity to blood new players into international cricket, Chahal was called up again into the Indian T20 line-up to face England in January 2017, and delivered in style in the deciding game: his 6 for 25 in that match in Bangalore was part of an England collaspse of 8 for 8, and the third-best figures till then in T20Is.

IPL through the years

He started his spell with RCB by playing all 14 league games. Though he finished with only 12 wickets, Chahal was nominated for the Emerging Player of the Year, which he lost to Axar Patel. The following two season saw Chahal grow as a player – picking up 44 wickets and becoming one of RCB’s vital cogs. In the 2018 edition, he went past Vinay Kumar to become the leading wicket-taker for the Bangalore franchise.

Though RCB retained only Kohli and AB de Villiers before the 2018 auction, Chahal was bought back by the Bangalore team via the RTM (right to match) for INR 6 crore.

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Some Lesser-Known Facts About Yuzvendra Chahal

• Does Yuzvendra Chahal drink alcohol?: Yes
• Chahal developed a great interest in both chess and cricket at the age of 7.
• Due to his thin physique, his friends used to call him “single haddi (bone).”
• He performed exceptionally well in his age-group chess tournaments; was the India national junior champion (U-12) in chess, and represented India in the World Cup in 2003 in Greece, with an overall career rating of 1946. 
• Though he wanted to pursue his chess career, he quit playing it professionally for it being an expensive sport, and he was finding it difficult to get sponsors. Due to it, he got more inclined to cricket.
• He is the first ever player to represent India in both chess and cricket. 
• He started playing cricket as a medium-fast bowler but later on, he became a leg spinner.
• According to him, playing chess helps him to become more patient, controls his temper and makes him able to read batsman’s mind.
• He considers Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne as his idol.
• He made his first-class debut in November 2009 against Madhya Pradesh in Indore.
• He represented the Mumbai Indian in the initial 3-years of his IPL career, but played only one match for them, and in 2014 he was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore, that boosted his cricketing career.
• Mitchell Starc is his best friend in Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team’s squad.
• His biggest stressbusters are – Netflix and his phone.
• In November 2017, when the New Zealand cricket team toured India, Chahal and New Zealand spinner Ish Sodhi played a chess game on the flight as the Indian cricket team and New Zealand cricket team travelled to Thiruvananthapuram for a T20 International match. 
• In September 2023, Chahal made his debut in the County Championship with Kent, where he took three wickets against Nottinghamshire in a Division One fixture.