After India snub, Yuzvendra Chahal registers six-wicket haul in Vijay Hazare trophy

A day after Yuzvendra Chahal was ignored by selectors for India’s T20 series against Australia, the leg-spinner showed his class in domestic cricket by taking six wickets in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023-24 opener on Thursday against Uttrakhand. Chahal has not been included in Team India’s squad for the five-match T20 series which starts on 23 November in Vishakapatnam.

Ravi Bishnoi has been picked as the leg-spinner, while all-rounder Axar Patel and Washington Sundar are the other spinners in the team.

After the latest setback, the veteran spinner posted a cryptic post on X (formerly Twitter) which only included an emoji.

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— Yuzvendra Chahal (@yuzi_chahal) November 20, 2023

There are reports that Team India management is ready to look beyond the 33-year-old in white-ball cricket as he was also ignored for the ODI World Cup recently.

On his exclusion from the World Cup which India lost to Australia in the final, Chahal had said that he was accustomed to such snubs.

“I understand that only fifteen players can be a part, because it’s a World Cup, where you can’t take 17 or 18,” Chahal said to Wisden India.

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“I do feel a little bad, but my motto in life is to move on. I’m used to it now, it’s been three World Cups (laughs). That’s why I came here [at Kent] to play because I want to play cricket somewhere, somehow.”

On Thursday, he took six wickets for 26 in 10 overs with two maidens. He dimissed Jiwanjot Singh (26), Dikshanshu Negi (14), Swapnil Singh (6), Aditya Tare (65), Akhil Rawat (22) and Mayank Mishra (0).

This also helped Chahal to complete 200 List A wickets. He now has 202 wickets from 130 matches.

India’s squad Australia T20 series: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vc), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar