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Any reference made to the Indian Premier League has to include the name of Yuzvendra Chahal. The leg-spinner has been one of the earliest finds of India’s premier cricket competition. He has throughout the years become one of the country’s finest wrist spinners, outfoxing batters with deception and guile.
Chahal and the IPL are two names which are synonymous with each other. With 233 scalps in 188 matches, he stands as the outright leading wicket-taker in the tournament’s history. Having played his trade for three different teams, he has been a key player across all of them, finding himself among the wickets throughout the seasons.
Here are Yuzvendra Chahal’s top three IPL performances
3) 4/25 vs KXIP, Bengaluru, 2016
While the headlines for this match have always surrounded the talismanic Virat Kohli’s century, Chahal went home with the best figures from this match, furthering his status as the Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s strike bowler. In a game reduced to 15 overs, Kohli lit up the Chinnaswamy Stadium to put on a mammoth 211 for 3. The target always looked out of reach for the now-defunct King XI Punjab, but Chahal picked up figures of 4 for 25 to ensure a mammoth 82-run win, restricting them to 120 for 9 in 14 overs.
2) 4/28 vs KKR, Mullanpur, 2025
The Punjab Kings have been one of the most dominant sides in the last two years of the IPL, even reaching the final in 2025. One of their most thrilling victories of that year came against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the New PCA Stadium in Mullanpur. Electing to bat first, the Kings were skittled out for 111, with Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy running riot. The Knight Riders were cruising at 62 for 2 before Chahal turned the game around. He had Ajinkya Rahane trapped LBW, before having Angkrish Raghuvanshi caught at backward point. Rinku Singh was stumped by deceiving him with drift and had Ramandeep Singh caught trying to slog with the next ball, leaving the Knights at 76 for 7. Marco Jansen and Arshdeep Singh picked up the final three wickets to take the Kings to a 16-run win. Chahal’s spell, which earned him the Player of the Match award, broke the game open as the team defended the lowest total in IPL history.
1) 5/40 vs KKR, Mumbai, 2022
Chahal’s best figures, and only five-wicket haul in the IPL, came in 2022 also against the Knight Riders, but for the Rajasthan Royals. Batting first at the Brabourne Stadium, the Royals were carried to a total of 217 for 5 courtesy of a stunning Jos Buttler century. Aaron Finch and Shreyas Iyer got the Knights off to a flyer with a 107-run partnership. Prasidh Krishna broke the stand, after which Chahal got to work, having Nitish Rana caught in the deep. He returned in the seventeenth over, dismissing Venkatesh Iyer off the first ball, before dismissing Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Mavi and Pat Cummins to complete his first IPL hat-trick and five-wicket haul. The Knight Riders were bowled out for 210 as the Royals completed a seven-run win.
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