Team India’s leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal’s love for Chess is known all over the world. In fact, the 30-year-old leg-spinner has represented India in Chess at the World Youth Chess Championship.
Yuzvendra Chahal set to play Chess Tournament
Even cricket experts often outline the impact of Chess on Yuzvendra Chahal’s bowling as the leg-spinner often tries to outsmart his opponents. Yuzvendra Chahal will be taking on Viswanathan Anand in an exhibition match of Chess to raise COVID-19 relief funds.
Viswanathan Anand on Saturday took to his Twitter handle shared his video and revealed that he will be playing the match against Chahal and other Bollywood celebrities.
Apart from Yuzvendra Chahal, celebrities like Ritiesh Deshmukh, Aamir Khan, Arijit Singh, Ananya Birla, and Manu Kumar Jain will also face the former Chess champion. The match will be live-streamed on the YouTube channel ‘chess.com India’.
Looking forward to playing some exciting chess with:
Aamir Khan@riteishd@NGEMovies@arijitsingh@ananya_birla@nikhilkamathcio@manukumarjain@yuzi_chahal@KicchaSudeepSee you all this Sunday, June 13th at 5 pm to #CheckmateCovid with @AkshayaPatra, @chesscom_in & @Prachura1 pic.twitter.com/wSEZuckFB0
— Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) June 12, 2021
Chahal is a former chess player and has participated in national tournaments during his school days. The leg-spinner has also represented India at the World Youth Chess Championship.
The 30-year-old is named in India’s white-ball squad for the upcoming limited-over series against Sri Lanka, starting from July 13.
The series comes as a great opportunity for both him and Kuldeep Yadav to redeem themselves in the absence of Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja is currently with the 20-man Indian contingent in England and will be performing his national duties in red-ball cricket.
India’s squad
Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (Wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya
Net Bowlers
Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh
Sri Lanka vs India ODI Schedule
| S.No. | Date | Match | Venue |
| 1 | 13th July | 1st ODI | Colombo |
| 2 | 16th July | 2nd ODI | Colombo |
| 3 | 18th July | 3rd ODI | Colombo |
Sri Lanka vs India T20I Series
| S.No. | Date | Match | Venue |
| 1 | 21st July | 1st T20I | Colombo |
| 2 | 23rd July | 2nd T20I | Colombo |
| 3 | 25th July | 3rd T20I | Colombo |
