India and Tamil Nadu batter Dinesh Karthik recalled how Deepak Chahar changed the fortunes of a struggling Rajasthan team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament in 2019-20. This comes after Chahar almost pulled off an amazing win for India in the third ODI against South Africa recently.

India lost the series 0-3 under the captaincy of KL Rahul, but Chahar, who got only one chance in the series, was impressed with 2 wickets and an impressive 54 runs off 34 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes to his name.

Speaking on Cricbuzz, Dinesh Karthik praised Chahar and recalled his "fighting spirit" for Rajasthan in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20.

"Rajasthan were playing in Kerala. It was a Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament and there were six sides in the group. Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu were paired together. We got off to a good start and ended up winning most of the games. We kind of cruised through but in the first three games Deepak Chahar wasn't there for Rajasthan. They had lost two and they had just won one", he said.

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Chahar opens both the bowling and batting for Rajasthan in the T20s and had impressed everyone with a match-winning half-century against Sri Lanka in an ODI recently.

"But after he came, they went on to win the next three. Went to the Super League Phase One against Karnataka, Mumbai, and then went on to play the semi-finals against us. But just what he brought to the table as a leader was very good,” he added.

"He has that fighting spirit in him. You can see it. You call it hunger, you call it the ability to get the best out. He seems to have that and that's a very good attribute to have. I think Rajasthan in the limited time that he's led, he's done a good job for them as well", he concluded.