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Deepak Chahar's 6-7 vs Bangladesh: Flashback to T20I cricket's finest bowling spell

Aakash Saini

Deepak Chahar took 6-7 against Bangladesh [Source: @BCCI/x]Deepak Chahar took 6-7 against Bangladesh [Source: @BCCI/x]

T20 cricket is often considered a batter’s paradise, and rightfully so. However, every once in a while, a bowler delivers something so spellbinding, that it flips the very script of the format itself.

On one unforgettable evening at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur back in November 2019, Indian fast bowler Deepak Chahar did just that by crafting a world-record spell to decimate the visiting Bangladeshis in a series-decider.

When Deepak Chahar smothered Bangladesh with world record spell

In the series-deciding third T20I from Bangladesh’s 2019 tour of India in Nagpur, the visitors were tasked to chase down 175 to record a rare series win in India. Indian fast bowler Deepak Chahar dented those Bangladeshi ambitions with the new ball itself, picking up the wickets of dangermen Litton Das and Soumya Sarkar, the latter for a first-ball duck, in his very first over of the innings.

Deepak Chahar was later recalled into the attack to bowl the 13th over of the run-chase by captain Rohit Sharma. The speedster responded by getting rid of a threatening Mohammad Mithun. Called up again for his third and final spell of the game, Chahar mopped up the Bangladeshi tail with the wickets of Shafiul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman and Aminul Islam in three successive deliveries to snare a sensational hat-trick, India’s first and only T20I hat-trick to date.

The fast bowler eventually seized figures of 6-7 in his 3.2 overs, the best bowling figures ever recorded in the history of T20I cricket among players from Test playing nations. Fittingly, he was adjudged the ‘Player of the Match’ as India clinched the series 2-1.

To put his spell in hindsight, Bangladesh made 144 in 19.2 overs in the run-chase. Deepak Chahar conceded just seven of those runs while taking six wickets, leaving the remaining bowlers to share the burden of 137 runs for only four scalps, a contrast that made his spell stand out like a lone masterpiece in an otherwise ordinary canvas.