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Yuzvendra Chahal has not been given a chance in ODIs again.
Team India gave a tough match to the host team in the ODI series.
New Delhi. The series between India and South Africa (IND vs SA) is over. Many players were given a chance in this series. In which young players like Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Tilak Verma, Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar are also included. The BCCI announced a 16-member squad for the 3-match series, with 14 players given a chance. Among the two players who were ignored, one name is that of star bowler Yuzvendra Chahal.
Yuzvendra Chahal has not got a chance in a single ODI match for the last 11 months. Chahal has 121 wickets in 69 ODI innings. However, he did not get a chance in this series either. Apart from World Cup and Asia Cup, Team India played more than 10 ODI matches in 2023. But Chahal got to play only two matches in January. Chahal took three wickets in these two ODIs against Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Talking about T20, spin master currently seems to be out of the bowler race in the T20 World Cup. He also did not get a chance in the T20 series against South Africa and Australia.
Who killed the four on the spot?
As for the ODI series against South Africa, Sai Sudarshan and Sanju Samson were the big names among the batsmen. Sai Sudarshan scored two consecutive fifties in the debut series. Apart from this, Sanju Samson staked his claim by scoring a century in the last match of the series. He took Team India to a fighting score by playing an innings of 108 runs in the crucial match.
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In the last ODI, Washington Sundar got a chance in the playing XI in place of Yuzvendra Chahal. Sundar took 2 valuable wickets in this match. Young batsman Tilak Verma also batted sensibly in the last ODI and scored the first half-century of his ODI career. Apart from Yuzvendra Chahal, fast bowler Akash Deep, who replaced Deepak Chahar, also did not start his career in this series.
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Tags: ind vs sa, Sanju Samson, Team India, Yuzvendra Chahal
First published: December 22, 2023, 06:01 IST

