Piyush Chawla (; born 24 December 1988) is a former Indian

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who has played for the

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. He was a member of the Indian team that won both the

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and the

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. He is seen as a leg-spinning all-rounder in domestic cricket. He spent his childhood in

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and learnt early essentials of cricket at Sonakpur Stadium under the guidance of his first coach Mr KK Gautam. Chawla completed his schooling at Wilsonia College. He has also played for the India under-19 team and the

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Career

Chawla first played for India U-19 against the England U-19 team in 2004–05, claiming 13 wickets from two Under-19 Tests at a

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of just above 12. He also played in the 2005–06 home series against Australia U-19, where they won the five-match limited overs series 4–1, taking eight wickets. In the 2005–06 Challenger Trophy, Chawla was selected to play for India B. Although he only bowled three of a possible ten overs in the first match of the series, conceding 21, he picked up two wickets in the next match against India A, and as India B reached the final against the Seniors, he took the wicket of

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–

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with a googly – in an effort described by

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as "impressive". He also dismissed

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and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, to end with three for 49, but the Seniors still won by three wickets. Two weeks later, he made his first class debut for Central Zone against South Zone in the Duleep Trophy and scored 60 in a 92-run eighth-wicket stand with Harvinder Singh. He also finished with match bowling figures of 27.2–3–100–6, admittedly only getting one of the top five batsman once. He has been known by Kiran More since the age of 15 and at only 17 has potentially got a great cricketing future in front of him. He proved himself again when he took 4 wickets in 8 overs conceding only 8 runs in the U-19 World Cup final of 2006. He also made 25 (n.o.) runs. Piyush Chawla fielding

This resulted in his selection in the Indian Test squad for the first Test against England in

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, in March 2006, and was selected for his debut in the second Test against England in

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, making him the second youngest Test debutant for India after

. It was in this Test that he claimed his sole wicket of

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(0/45 from 9 overs, and 1/8 from 5.1 overs). He played his first ODI with

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on 12 May 2007, against

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. His debut was highly successful, with him taking 3 wickets. In the second ODI with

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, he was equally impressive with three wickets. He returned to test after two years in April 2008 against

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, where he took 2/66 (wickets of opener Neil McKenzie and

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), but bowled only four wicketless overs in the second innings. In 2009, Chawla signed for

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for a month, as cover for Yasir Arafat who was with Pakistan. In his first County Championship match against

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, he took a total of 8 wickets in the match, and came in at number 9 in the first innings, and scored 102* from only 86 balls. Chawla was selected for

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. He was also a member of the ICC Cricket World Cup-winning Indian squad in 2011. He returned to play his third Test, after 4 years, against

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in December 2012, where the hosts had fielded four spinners Ravichandran Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, debutant Ravindra Jadeja and Chawla. Chawla took 4/69 in the 1st innings. Chawla returned to English county cricket in August 2013 when he joined

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as their overseas player for the last five weeks of the season. He was the leading wicket-taker for

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in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy, with 32 dismissals in six matches. He was also the leading wicket-taker for Gujarat in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with sixteen dismissals in eight matches. Chawla took 446 wickets in 137 first-class matches playing domestic cricket for Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. On 6th June 2025, Chawla announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.

IPL career

Chawla played in the IPL for the Kings XI Punjab team from 2008 to 2013. He has had a successful time at Punjab. After IPL 4 he had taken 57 wickets in 55 matches and only 5 players had better record at the time. He was sold for US$900,000 to KXIP in 4th Edition of IPL. On 12 February 2014, Chawla was bought by

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for 4.25

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in IPL 7 auction. In January 2018, he was bought by the

in the 2018 IPL auction. In the 2020 IPL auction, he was bought by the

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ahead of the 2020 Indian Premier League. In February 2021, Chawla was bought by the

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in the IPL auction ahead of the 2021 Indian Premier League. During the 2022 Indian Premier League, Chawla remained unsold. However, he was again bought by

in the IPL auction ahead of the 2023 Indian Premier League for the base price of 50 lakh.

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