 Chahar in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Deepak Lokendrasingh Chahar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1992-08-07)7 August 1992 (age 32) Agra,Uttar Pradesh, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right armmedium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Rahul Chahar (cousin) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 223) | 25 September 2018 v Afghanistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 7 December 2022 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 76) | 8 July 2018 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 1 December 2023 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009/10–present | Rajasthan(squad no. 9/90) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016-2017 | Rising Pune Supergiants(squad no. 9/45) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018-2024 | Chennai Super Kings(squad no. 90) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025-Present | Mumbai Indians(squad no. 56) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deepak Chahar (born 7 August 1992) is an Indian internationalcricketer. He is a right-armmedium paceswing bowler, who plays forRajasthan in domestic cricket andMumbai Indians in theIndian Premier League. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the2018 Asia Cup.
In 2019, he became the first Indian malecricketer to take a hat-trick in aTwenty20 International (T20I) match. In January 2020, Chahar was awarded with the T20I Performance of the Year award by theInternational Cricket Council (ICC), after taking six wickets for seven runs against Bangladesh.[1]
Chahar was born in 1992 inAgra,Uttar Pradesh. His younger cousin isRahul Chahar.[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]
Chahar took eight wickets for 10 runs (8/10) againstHyderabad on hisfirst-class cricket debut in the2010–11 Ranji Trophy;[8] Hyderabad were bowled out for 21 runs, the lowest total inRanji Trophy history. Chahar's swing bowling soon earned him a youth contract withRising Pune Supergiants, anIndian Premier League Twenty20 cricket franchise.[9] In October 2016, he worked with international coachesIan Pont andCatherine Dalton inJaipur as part of Rajasthan's development camp.[10]
In January 2018, he was bought byChennai Super Kings in the2018 IPL auction.[11] In October 2018, he was named in the India B squad for the2018–19 Deodhar Trophy.[12] In February 2022, he was bought byChennai Super Kings in theauction for the2022 Indian Premier League tournament.[13] However, he was later ruled out of the tournament due to a back injury.
On 25 November 2024, during the IPL Mega Auction in Jeddah, he was bought byMumbai Indians.
In May 2018, Chahar was named in India'sTwenty20 International (T20I) squad for theteam's tour of England.[14] He made his T20I debut on 8 July 2018,[15] taking one wicket.[16] He made hisOne Day International debut againstAfghanistan in September 2018 during the2018 Asia Cup.[17]
Chahar was selected in the Indian Twenty20 squad againstWest Indies in 2019,[18] playing in the final match of the series and winning the player of the match award after taking three wickets for four runs.[19] He was subsequently selected for the three-match T20I seriesagainst Bangladesh. In the final match of the series he set newbest bowling figures in a men's T20I, with six wickets for seven runs from 3.2 overs.[a][20] During the series, he also took thefirst hat-trick by a bowler for India in T20I and his firstfive-wicket haul in T20Is.[21][22]
In July 2021, Chahar scored his maiden ODI half-century,[23] and in September was named as one of three reserve players in India's squad for the2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[24] In January 2022, he scored his second half century in ODIs against South Africa.[25]
