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Deepak Chahar: Biography| Age| Childhood| Career| Wife| Net Worth
Deepak Chahar, the right-arm swing bowler of the Indian Cricket Team, is one of the few bowlers in cricket who has impressed everyone with his swing bowling attack. The ability to get wickets in the early overs of the innings is one of the most difficult things to do, but Deepak Chahar delivered the required results in the majority of games. Deepak Chahar also has some amazing records to his name in various formats of cricket, and the journey of this bowler from a small town to the Indian Cricket Team is something worth knowing. Here is a brief biography of India’s swing bowler, along with some lesser-known facts about him.
Deepak Chahar’s Childhood and Early Life
Deepak Chahar was born on August 7, 1992, in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, to Lokendra Singh Chahar (his father) and Pushpa Chahar (his mother). His father is a retired Indian Air Force personnel, and his mother is a homemaker. He has one elder sister, Malti Chahar. Deepak Chahar started playing cricket at the tender age of 10, when his father admitted him to the Zila Cricket Academy in Jaipur. His father was really supportive and devoted his full time to building Deepak’s cricket career.
His father took him every morning to his cricket academy, which was in his town, for practice, where Deepak Chahar practiced for 6 hours daily till the start of his domestic career.
Deepak Chahar’s Cricket Career:
Domestic Cricket Career:
Deepak Chahar’s domestic career started in the year 2010-11, when he made his debut in first-class cricket in the Ranji Trophy. He displayed some outstanding bowling performances and scalped 8 wickets with his swing bowling attack, due to which the opposite team (Hyderabad) was bowled out for 21 runs, which is the lowest total in the Ranji Trophy. Deepak Chahar was playing in Rajasthan back then.
His exceptional performance continued in his debut year, which helped his team win their maiden Ranji Trophy title. With his bowling skills, he soon caught the eye of the selectors and got the contract from the Rising Pune Super Giants (an IPL cricket franchise now defunct) in 2016.
IPL Career:
Deepak Chahar’s IPL career started in 2016 when he was acquired by the Rising Pune Super Giants (now defunct), but that year he played only two matches and took no wickets. In 2018, the Chennai Super Kings bought him for INR 80 lakhs, and that year he played 12 matches and scalped 10 wickets. The following year, he was in some fine touch and took 22 wickets in 17 matches played. His team couldn’t lift the title that year, but he made a powerful space for himself in the team as a front-line bowler.
Since then, he has been playing for the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, and in the IPL 2023 auction, he was retained by CSK for a whopping INR 14 crore.
International Cricket Career:
Deepak Chahar got the opportunity to don the blue jersey in May 2018 when India was touring England for the matches, and on July 8, he opened his wicket account in the T20I by taking 1 wicket in the match and played his debut ODI match the same year against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup 2018. Later, he was selected for the Indian team against the West Indies and got his maiden player of the match award in the final T20 match of the series.
In the final match of a T20 series against Bangladesh, he became only the second Indian bowler and the first Indian male bowler to take a hattrick in an international T20 match. The first Indian bowler to achieve this feat was Ekta Bisht, who did this task back in 2012 against Sri Lanka. Deepak Chahar took 6 wickets against Bangladesh for 7 runs from 3.2 overs, which is still the second-best bowling figure in the ICC T20I match.
Deepak Chahar’s Net Worth:
Deepak Chahar’s net worth, according to some online sources and finance analysts, is INR 65 crore, which includes his brand endorsements, the salary he gets for playing matches, the investments he made, and his IPL contract. Apart from that, he has investments in the real estate sector and runs some private businesses; his net worth will increase in the coming time if he performs well in the matches.
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Deepak Chahar’s Social and Personal Life:
Deepak Chahar is fairly active on social media and shares his happy moments with his followers. Coming to his personal life, his elder sister Malti Chahar is an actress and model who appeared in some Indian web series and was also the second runner-up of the Femina Miss India 2014 He married his longtime girlfriend, Jaya Bhardwaj, in June 2022. He also has a cousin playing international cricket and the IPL; his name is Rahul Chahar.
He proposed to his girlfriend Jaya Bhardwaj in the most dramatic style by kneeling on one knee, and later he uploaded the video on his social media accounts.
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