Yuzvendra Chahal led the team to victory by taking 9 wickets and did this feat for the first time in his career.
Yuzvendra Chahal has not been able to play any match for Team India for a long time. But now he has done a great feat in England's County Championship. He bowled brilliantly while playing for Northamptonshire in England and took 9 wickets against Derbyshire to give his team a bumper win by 133 runs. In the entire match, he took 9 wickets for 99 runs. This is the best bowling performance in his career so far. In this match, Chahal also achieved the feat of taking 100 wickets in his first-class career.
Northamptonshire has registered its first win in this season of the County Championship. Yuzvendra Chahal played a major role in this. While he took 5 wickets for 45 runs in the first innings, he took 4 wickets for 54 runs in the second innings. Due to his deadly bowling, despite the failure of the batsmen, his team registered a big win by 133 runs in just 3 days. His team was all out for just 219 runs in the first innings. After this, Chahal took 5 wickets and put Derbyshire on the backfoot by bowling them out for 165 runs.
Due to Chahal's deadly bowling, Northamptonshire got a lead of 54 runs. Northamptonshire batsmen flopped in their second innings as well. The whole team was again all out for 211 runs. Now Chahal's team had a total lead of 265 runs. After this, in the second innings, he started hunting along with Robert Keogh and forced Derbyshire to kneel. Both of them took 9 wickets for 98 runs and gave Northamptonshire a bumper victory of 133 runs.
Chahal is knocking on Team India's door
What Yuzvendra Chahal could never do in India, he has done it in England. He took 9 wickets for 99 runs in the entire match, which is the best bowling performance of his career. He has never been able to do this in Team India or India's domestic matches.
With this, Chahal has taken a total of 106 wickets in 38 first-class matches and is knocking on the door of Team India's Test team. However, despite such good bowling, he has not yet been able to make his Test debut for Team India.