Chahar almost takes hat-trick in Mushtaq Ali Trophy

Thiruvananthapuram: Medium-pacer Deepak Chahar followed up his hat-trick in the final India-Bangladesh T20I with almost a repeat, taking three wickets in the space of four balls for Rajasthan against Vidarbha in a Group B match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament here today. However, his heroics (four wickets in an over) went in vain as Rajasthan went down by 1 run (VJD method) in a game reduced to 13 overs per team due to rain. Chahar picked up the wickets of Darshan Nalkande, Shrikant Wagh and Akshay Wadkar off the fourth, fifth and sixth balls of the final over of Vidarbha’s innings, but missed the three-peat as he bowled a wide in between. PTI