In what was one of the most shocking cricketing news updates of the year so far, former Indian pacer Ashish Nehra is set to mark his return to professional cricket ahead of the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season. He wasn’t in the original list of those who went under the hammer in the IPL 2021 Auction which makes it an even more surprising move.
As per reports, Nehra has been grabbed by the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for the IPL 2021 season, to add to their fast bowling attack. Given his experience with Team India and in the IPL too, CSK has announced that he will join the squad as a player/mentor role. It was only earlier this morning that Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood dropped out of IPL 2021 and Nehra was quickly brought on as his replacement.
It was in 2017 that Nehra last played any competitive cricket and it’s a very surprising move but CSK is known for such unorthodox decision making, led by the genius himself, MS Dhoni. When he last played in IPL 2017, Nehra brought in all his experience for Sunrisers Hyderabad, bowling even at the death and ending with 8 scalps in 6 games with best returns of 3/42 in one game.
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CSK has often been trolled on social media with the tag of Dad’s Army being given to them as the average age of their players is well above 30. Ashish Nehra himself is 41 years old today but this comes as no surprise as they even have other senior members int he squad like Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo, and Imran Tahir too, the latter set to turn 43 years old later in March 2021.
DISCLAIMER: Coming back to Nehra, he’s got 106 wickets in 88 T20 games in his IPL career and he’s all set to improve on that record in IPL 2021. If you’ve been reading this article so far, be sure that Nehra will continue doing commentary and other post-retirement activities as HE’S NOT RETURNING. This was yet another faking news from our end, wishing you a very happy April’s Fools Day!
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