Deepak Chahar (born 7 August 1992) is an Indian international

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er. He is a right-arm

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pace swing bowler, who plays for

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in domestic cricket and

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in the

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. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the

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. In 2019, he became the first Indian male cricketer to take a hat-trick in a

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(T20I) match. In January 2020, Chahar was awarded with the T20I Performance of the Year award by the

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(ICC), after taking six wickets for seven runs against Bangladesh.

Early and personal life

Chahar was born in 1992 in

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. His younger cousin is

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. He proposed to his Delhi-based girlfriend, Jaya Bhardwaj, during his team's last league-stage match of the 2021 Indian Premier League. On 1 June 2022 the couple got married in Agra.

Domestic career

Chahar took eight wickets for 10 runs (8/10) against

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on his

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debut in the

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; Hyderabad were bowled out for 21 runs, the lowest total in

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history. Chahar's swing bowling soon earned him a youth contract with

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, an

Twenty20 cricket franchise. In 2016, he was signed up by the

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. In October 2016, he worked with international coaches

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and

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as part of Rajasthan's development camp. In January 2018, he was bought by

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in the 2018 IPL auction. In October 2018, he was named in the India B squad for the

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. In February 2022, he was bought by

in the

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for the

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tournament. However, he was later ruled out of the tournament due to a back injury. On 25 November 2024, during the IPL mega auction in Jeddah, he was signed up by the

International career

In May 2018, Chahar was named in India's

(T20I) squad for the team's tour of England. He made his T20I debut on 8 July 2018, taking one wicket. He made his

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debut against

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in September 2018 during the

. Chahar was selected in the Indian Twenty20 squad against

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in 2019, playing in the final match of the series and winning the player of the match award after taking three wickets for four runs. He was subsequently selected for the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh. In the final match of the series he set new best bowling figures in a men's T20I, with six wickets for seven runs from 3.2 overs. During the series, he also took the first hat-trick by a bowler for India in T20I and his first

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in T20Is. In July 2021, Chahar scored his maiden ODI half-century, and in September was named as one of three reserve players in India's squad for the

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. In January 2022, he scored his second half century in ODIs against South Africa.

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