4 fringe Indian players who should be given a chance to prove their case for next year's World T20

#3 Rahul Chahar

Rahul Chahar was highly impressive for the Mumbai Indians in the last IPL

India have shown the willingness to back the wrist spinners in the last couple of years and they had to do that because the importance of wrist spin has increased significantly in modern day white ball cricket.

But India’s wrist spinners, especially Kuldeep Yadav, have been found out whenever the pitches are slow and that’s because Kuldeep’s natural speed is pretty slow already and on top of that, if the pitch is slow as well, it makes it so much easier for the batsmen to pick his variations off the pitch by rocking onto the back-foot.

Rahul Chahar is a bit different in that regard. He is tall and generates a fair bit of pace through the air for a spinner. It’s not easy to play him off the back-foot unless he drops it really short. And since he is pretty tall and gets nice drift into the right handers before spinning it away, his trajectory is another challenge for the batsmen.

In the IPL 2019, nobody found Chahar easy to put away as he played a crucial role in the title triumph of Mumbai Indians. The leggie ended up with an economy rate of below 7 in the 13 games he played. He might be India’s trump card on the flat and hard Australian surfaces in the T20 World Cup next year.