Leg spinner Rahul Chahar took eight wickets for 51 runs on his debut for Surrey within the County Championship, thus breaking a report that has stood since 1859. His figures of 24-7-51-8 towards Hampshire have been the most effective figures by a debutant for Surrey, going previous Willian Mudle’s mark of seven/61 set in 1859.
He took 10 wickets within the match total for 118 runs and helped Surrey beat Hampshire by 20 runs to remain second within the County Division 1 desk. Chahar had joined Surrey for this fixture, though he was registered to play for them at the beginning of the month according to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) rules. The figures on this match can be Chahar’s greatest in firstclass cricket, whereas the 8/51 is his greatest figures for an innings within the format.
Amongst Chahar’s victims in each innings was India’s Washington Sundar, who had turned up for Hampshire this season. The all-rounder had figures of three.2-0-5-3 in first innings however returned wicketless within the second essay. With the bat, Washington made 56 and 11 for the Ben Brown-led facet.
The Tamil Nadu cricketer could possibly be seen in motion throughout the upcoming dwelling Check collection towards the West Indies. However Chahar’s India profession has been halted after taking part in a solitary ODI and 6 T20Is between 2019 and 2021. His appearances had come across the time that he had performed a key function in Mumbai Indians’ back-to-back Indian Premier League (IPL) titles in 2019 and 2020.
His call-up to Surrey got here after they misplaced each of their present spinning choices, Will Jacks and Cam Metal, to damage. Chahar is an everyday for Rajasthan within the Ranji Trophy and had taken 87 wickets in 24 first-class matches at 26.12 earlier than this recreation for Surrey.
Hampshire, in the meantime, have been left observing relegation after the defeat to Surrey. They’d been batting with Durham to remain within the division and the loss had resulted within the latter needing only a draw towards Yorkshire. Nevertheless, they ended up being blown away for 85 runs with George Hill and Dom Bess each taking 4 wickets every, and have been thus relegated.