Piyush Chawla

Personal info.

Full name Piyush Pramod Chawla Born 24 December 1988 Aligarh , Uttar Pradesh , India Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) Batting style Left-handed batsman Bowling style Right arm leg break Role All-rounder

International info.

National side India Test debut (cap 255 ) 9 March 2006 v England ODI debut (cap 167 ) 12 May 2007 v Bangladesh

More info.

He first played for India U-19 against the England U-19 team in 2004-05 , claiming 13 wickets fromtwo Under-19 Tests at a bowling average of just above 12. He alsoplayed in the 2005-06 home seriesagainst Australia U-19 , where they won the five-match limited overs series 4-1, taking eight wickets.Piyush Chawla has a bowling speed of between 80 km to 85 rather he has also reacheda maximum of 91km/ph In the 2005-06 Challenger Trophy , Chawla was selected to play for India B. Although he only bowled three of a possible ten overs in the first match of the series, conceding 21, he picked up two wickets in the next match againstIndia A, and as India B reached the final against the Seniors, he took the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar - bowled with a googly - in an effort described by Cricinfo as "impressive" He also dismissed Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni , to end with three for 49, but the Seniors still won by three wickets.Two weeks later, he made his first class debut for Central Zone against South Zone in the Duleep Trophy , and scored 60 in a 92-run eighth-wicket stand with Harvinder Singh . He also finished with match bowling figures of 27.2-3-100-6, admittedly only getting one of the top five batsman once. He has been known by Kiran More since the age of 15 and at only 17 has potentially got a great cricketing future in front of him. He proved himself again when he took 4 wickets in 8 overs conceding only 8 runs in the U-19 World Cup finalof 2006. He also made 25 (n.o.) runs.

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