Yuzvendra Chahal celebrates after taking his fifth wicket. (Picture Credit: Screengrab)
Chahal picked up five wickets for 45 runs in 16.3 overs to help Northamptonshire dismiss Derbyshire for 165 runs in the first inning of the County Championship Division Two match.
Star Indian spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who was not named in any of the four squads of the ongoing Duleep Trophy 2024, picked up a five-wicket haul for Northamptonshire on Tuesday (September 10) in the ongoing County Championship Division Two match played against Derbyshire at County Ground in Northampton. The 34-year-old spinner finished the first inning with figures of 5 for 45 in 16.3 overs and helped his side dismiss the visitors for 165 runs.
Thanks to Chahal’s super show, Northamptonshire managed to take a 54-run lead at the end of the first inning for both teams. Chahal, who was the member of the T20 World Cup 2024 winning Indian team, has never played a red-ball match for India, and his last white-ball appearance for the Men in Blue was against the West Indies at Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground on August 13, 2023.
61.3 | Five for Chahal and Derbyshire all out! ️Chahal bowls Morley first ball to pick up his third first-class five-wicket haul.
Derbyshire 165 all out, 54 behind our first innings score. pic.twitter.com/BW7vJHZWje
— Northamptonshire CCC (@NorthantsCCC) September 10, 2024
He is India’s all-time leading wicket-taker in the shortest format of the game, but despite that, he has never played a single match in the T20 World Cup. He was included in the team picked for the 2022 T20 World Cup and 2024 T20 World Cup as well but failed to find a place in playing XI.
Shaw flops
Apart from Chahal, Prithvi Shaw is also playing for Northamptonshire in the County Championship Division Two match, but he failed to impress with his batting. The right-handed opening batter was dismissed for four runs from two balls in the first inning, and in the second inning he made two runs from eight balls.
The former India U-19 captain had made his Test debut for India against the West Indies in Rajkot on October 4, 2018, and scored a century in the first innings. Shaw is the youngest batter to score a century on Test debut for India, but he hasn’t played a red-ball match for India since December 21, 2020.
Like Chahal, he was also ignored by the BCCI selectors for the ongoing edition of Duleep Trophy 2024, the second round matches of which are set to take place in Anantapur from Thursday (September 12).