{"id":154257,"date":"2025-09-23T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154257\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:31:07","slug":"rahul-chahar-india-spinner-added-to-surrey-squad-to-face-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154257\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Chahar: India spinner added to Surrey squad to face Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey have added India spinner Rahul Chahar to their squad for the last County Championship game of the season with the league title going down to the wire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Three Feathers must beat Hampshire at the Utilita Bowl to have any chance of retaining their Division One title after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c9dxggpn8dlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing a dramatic potential decider against Nottinghamshire<\/a> at The Oval last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A win for Notts against Warwickshire would secure a first championship since 2010 and end three years of Surrey dominance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chahar, 26, was registered to Surrey earlier this month but is yet to make an appearance for the club. He has taken 87 wickets in 24 first-class matches at an average of 26.12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to join Surrey for this week&#8217;s match &#8211; I&#8217;m coming here to have an impact and help the team in their final match of the season,&#8221; he told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiaoval.com\/rahul-chahar-added-to-surrey-squad-for-hampshire\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chahar has played for Rajasthan since 2016 and has represented Rising Pune Supergiant, Mumbai Indians, Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has six T20 international caps and one ODI appearance for India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey have added India spinner Rahul Chahar to their squad for the last County Championship game of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-154257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}