Wrist-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal reveals what made him choose cricket over chess

Yuzvendra Chahal has been one of India's frontline spinners ever since he has made it to highest level in 2017. He along with spinner Kuldeep Yadav fondly called as 'Kulcha' have gone on to win many matches for Men In Blue by bamboozling batsmen with ir wrist spin.  Meanwhile, Chahal who has represented India at World Youth Chess Championship spoke about time when he decided that he will be preferring cricket over chess. 

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'You can’t play both sports at same time': Chahal

During a recent interaction with former Chennai Super Kings batsman Subramaniam Badrinath on a show named Mind Masters by MFORE that is aired on Star Sports, Yuzi went on to say that when he had played his first nationals of chess, he was also playing cricket at same time. He n mentioned that one cant play both sports at same time and training for 10-12 hours in chess and n 6 – 8 hours for cricket was getting very difficult for him and so when he had come back from World Cup, he had told his far that he will only be focusing on cricket.

Justifying furr, Haryana spinner added that in chess, one requires a lot of patience as every match is about 6 – 7 hours and y are playing sitting at one place without speaking much.Similarly, in cricket, sometimes one bowls so well but does t succeed in getting wickets. refore, y need to be patient and keep it in ir mind that y are bowling well and would probably get wickets in next spell. 

Coming back to cricketing action, Yuzvendra Chahal was all set to represent Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2020 that was originally scheduled to get underway on March 29 but has w been suspended indefinitely as of w due to global pandemic. RCB would be eyeing ir maiden title after faltering at final hurdle thrice in 2009, 2011, and, 2016 editions respectively.

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(Im Courtesy: AP)