With just a few days to go before the start of the Indian Premier League-2022, the Chennai Super Kings, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, have suffered a significant blow. The team’s star fast bowler Deepak Chahar could miss the first half of IPL-2022 due to injury.
However, doubts are being raised about whether he will be able to play even after that. During the third and final T20 cricket match against the West Indies in Kolkata, Chahar was injured. According to sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Deepak Chahar could be out of cricket for eight weeks.
A board source said Chahar would not be able to play for eight weeks, meaning he will miss the first half of IPL-2022.
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The world’s most popular T20 cricket league is scheduled to start on March 26. However, the Chennai Super Kings are still awaiting a report from the National Cricket Academy, where Deepak Chahar is undergoing treatment. Chennai bought Deepak Chahar for Rs 14 crore. He has been the second most expensive player in the IPL this year after Ishaan Kishan.
Chahar suffered a right quadriceps injury in the third T20 match against the West Indies in Kolkata on February 20. As a result, he was dropped from the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka. The Indian team, led by Rohit Sharma, won the series 3-0 against the West Indies and Sri Lanka.
Deepak has taken ten wickets in seven ODIs and 26 wickets in 20 T20 matches in his short international career. Deepak can also make a valuable contribution to the lower order with the bat.
He has scored two half-centuries in ODIs, with an unbeaten 69 being his highest score. IPL-2022 will be played in India from March 26 to May 29. Earlier, the board had also left the option of playing IPL outside India this year if Corona’s case escalates.
