{"id":496795,"date":"2026-03-26T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:00:10","slug":"rahul-chahar-surrey-sign-leg-spinner-for-final-eight-county-championship-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496795\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Chahar: Surrey sign leg spinner for final eight County Championship games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surrey have signed India leg spinner Rahul Chahar for the final eight games of the upcoming County Championship season.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old returns for a second spell at the county after making one appearance last year, when he took 10 wickets in his debut and only match.<\/p>\n

He claimed eight second-innings wickets<\/a> against Hampshire last September with career-best numbers of 8-51.<\/p>\n

Chahar, who has represented India seven times in white-ball cricket, played for the Mumbai Indians side that won the Indian Premier League in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n

He will play for the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL this season before re-joining Surrey, starting with their game against Hampshire at the Kia Oval on 7 June.<\/p>\n

“I’m so excited to be coming back to Surrey this season,” Chahar, who has taken 101 wickets in 27 first-class matches, told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“I really enjoyed my short spell in 2025 and jumped at the opportunity to come back this season when I spoke to Alec Stewart (director of men’s cricket).<\/p>\n

“Surrey is a successful club and I want to help the team achieve its goals in 2026.”<\/p>\n

Surrey, who won the County Championship Division One title three years running from 2022 to 2024, finished runners-up last season behind champions Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey have signed India leg spinner Rahul Chahar for the final eight games of the upcoming County Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496795","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=496795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}