Northampton: India’s skilled leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal took 5 wickets for 45 runs for Northamptonshire towards Derbyshire within the Division Two match of the English County Championship. India’s restricted overs specialist bowler accomplished 100 wickets in first-class cricket throughout this era. Chahal has taken 5 wickets in first-class cricket for the third time. This season of county cricket has been nice for Chahal. This leg-spinner took 5 wickets for 14 runs towards Kent within the One Day Cup final month.
After scoring 219 runs within the first innings of the present match, Northamptonshire bowled out Derbyshire for 165 runs in 61.3 overs with the sensible bowling of Chahal and Rob Keogh (three wickets for 65 runs). Chahal took the wickets of Wayne Madsen, Aneurin Donald, Jack Chappell, Alex Thomson and Jack Morley throughout this era. Chahal’s teammate Prithvi Shaw’s poor efficiency continues on this county season. He scored 4 and two runs in each innings of the match. Shaw has additionally did not cross the 50 mark in his final three first-class innings.
Chahal, who has been out of motion since June, opted for a county outing and was now enjoying his third sport. Chahal bowled an excellent leg spin ball, which stunned Derbyshire’s Wayne Madsen, who couldn’t learn the road of the ball. Madsen tried to defend, however since he couldn’t perceive the size, the ball hit the off stump. It was an necessary wicket for Northampton as Madsen was batting on 47 whereas holding one finish.
Chahal was a part of India’s T20 World Cup-winning group, however performed only one observe match. His final worldwide match was towards the Windies in August 2023. With 96 wickets in 80 matches, Chahal is India’s prime wicket-taker in T20Is, however Kuldeep Yadav’s latest kind has saved Chahal out of the Indian T20 group.