{"id":562453,"date":"2026-03-26T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:58:08","slug":"india-spinner-rahul-chahar-returns-to-surrey-for-an-eight-game-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562453\/","title":{"rendered":"India spinner Rahul Chahar returns to Surrey for an eight-game spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India leg-spinner Rahul Chahar will return to Surrey to play in eight County championship matches, starting with the fixture against Hampshire at the Oval on June 7.<\/p>\n<p>Chahar had made his Surrey debut in September last year, his only match for the club till date, and made an instant impression, picking up 10 wickets against Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>His second innings figure of 8 for 51 is the best first-class bowling figures by a debutant for the club, breaking William Mudie&#8217;s 166-year-old record when he took 7\/61 in 1859.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so excited to be coming back to Surrey this season. I really enjoyed my short spell in 2025 and jumped at the opportunity to come back this season when I spoke to Alec Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surrey is a successful Club and I want to help the team achieve its goals in 2026,&#8221; said Chahar, who has played seven white-ball matches for India.<\/p>\n<p>Chahar also has 101 wickets from 27 first-class games.<\/p>\n<p>Former England captain Alec Stewart, Surrey&#8217;s Director of Cricket, said: &#8220;Rahul came in last year and did an excellent job at Hampshire, showing his qualities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking forward to welcoming back to the group and seeing how he can contribute to winning games of cricket for Surrey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India leg-spinner Rahul Chahar will return to Surrey to play in eight County championship matches, starting with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[217098,217099,217100,217101,217102,217103,49,48,217104,217105,87674],"class_list":["post-562453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-alecstewart","tag-cricketindia","tag-firstclasscricket","tag-hampshirecricket","tag-ovalcricket","tag-surreycricket","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-countychampionship","tag-rahulchahar","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}