Once one of the pillars in the Royal Challengers Bengaluru team, Yuzvendra Chahal is now weaving his magic for Rajsthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. With a brilliant 3-wicket haul for the Royals against Mumbai Indians on Saturday, Chahal once again proved his worth in the shortest format of the game. While the match between RR and MI was taking place, former Rajasthan star Shane Watson sent a blunt message to Royal Challengers Bengaluru, his and Chahal’s former team, about the spinner’s release.
Chahal was released by the Bengaluru franchise after the IPL 2021 season and was brought in by the Rajasthan side. Since then, he has cemented his place in the RR squad and has become a consistent partnership breaker for his team.
“Yuzvendra Chahal has also done it for a long time in the IPL in international cricket. Chahal doesn’t go for many runs and he gets the best batters out. He keeps doing it game after game, year after year and Rajasthan Royals We are so happy that we have him,” said Shane Watson in Jio Cinema.
“Today he took the big wicket of Hardik Pandya, which was at the crucial moment of the match. Yuzi Chahal came out on top again. I keep saying this, RCB, why on earth did you let him go,” Watson further said. .
In a chat show, Chahal opened up about his heartbreaking exit from the Royal Challengers and said that the franchise had promised that they would do everything for him during the auction, but not even a bid materialized.
“When I put my name up for the auction, they promised me they would do everything for me. I said okay, but then I got really angry (he wasn’t picked by RCB). I don’t think I talked to the coaches for 2 -3 days. Even when I played my first match for RR against RCB, I didn’t speak to anyone,” Chahal had said on Ranveer Allahbadia’s show on YouTube.
“Definitely, I felt very bad. My most important journey started (from there) in 2014. I also felt very strange because I played for the franchise for eight years. I would also say that I got the India cap because of my performances for RCB because they gave me an opportunity to perform. From the very first match, Virat (Kohli) bhai showed faith in me. It feels bad because I had been playing there for eight years,” Chahal had said a few months ago.
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