London. The spin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Rob Keo restricted Leicestershire to a low score in the County Championship match, due to which their team Northamptonshire has reached a good position. Both of them together took a total of seven wickets and by the end of the day’s play, Northamptonshire is only 69 runs behind Leicestershire in the first innings and has seven wickets remaining. Batting first, the entire team of Leicestershire was reduced to a score of just 203, in response to which Northamptonshire has scored 134 runs after losing 3 wickets. Chahal and Keo once again proved to be important for their team. Earlier, their pair had also played a leading role in their team’s victory in the first match. Then Chahal took five wickets in the first innings and four wickets in the second innings. Chahal and Keo proved Northamptonshire’s decision to bat first wrong. Chahal took four wickets for 82 runs while Keogh took three wickets for 20 runs.
At the same time, left-arm fast bowler Jaydev Unadkat also played an important role in taking his team Sussex closer to the Division Two title by taking four wickets against Gloucestershire. Due to Unadkat’s four wickets, Gloucestershire’s team collapsed for 109 runs while Sussex scored 149 runs after losing four wickets. Chahal has not got a chance to play international cricket for a long time. Chahal played his last international match (T20) against West Indies in August 2023, while in January 2023 he played his last ODI match against New Zealand in Indore. Chahal got a place in the Indian team in the last T20 World Cup, although he did not get a chance to play a single match. At the same time, Unadkat also played his last international match (ODI) against West Indies in August 2023.