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Deepak Chahar (Image credit: BCCI/IPL)
NEW DELHI: While respective players person been celebrating milestones with the now-viral ‘chit celebration’ - pulling retired handwritten notes from their pockets aft cardinal moments - Deepak Chahar came up with his ain hilarious instrumentality connected the inclination during Mumbai Indians’s clash against Kolkata Knight Riders.Defending 147/8, Chahar began the innings nether unit arsenic KKR opener Finn Allen smashed him for back-to-back boundaries. But the MI pacer bounced backmost connected the last transportation of the implicit by dismissing Allen.
What followed grabbed everyone’s attention.After taking the wicket, Chahar pretended to propulsion retired an imaginary chit from his pouch and pointed towards the crowd. His teammates, expecting him to really nutrient a note, burst into laughter erstwhile they realised determination was nary chit astatine all.The ‘chit celebration’ has emerged arsenic 1 of the biggest trends of IPL 2026. It each started erstwhile Abhishek Sharma celebrated his whirlwind period by taking retired a handwritten enactment that read: “This 1 is for Orange Army.”
Since then, respective players person joined the trend, including Urvil Patel from Chennai Super Kings, Raghu Sharma from Mumbai Indians, and astir precocious Akash Maharaj Singh.However, the celebrations person besides drawn disapproval from erstwhile cricketers.
Ambati Rayudu termed it “rubbish and nonsense” and questioned wherefore players were carrying chits successful their pockets during matches.Former New Zealand pacer Mitchell McClenaghan said helium was “flabbergasted” by the trend.Meanwhile, erstwhile South Africa accelerated bowler Dale Steyn besides mocked the celebrations connected societal media, writing: “Time to enactment the papers away. It ain’t trending nary more. Actually, to beryllium honest, ne'er truly was.”As for the match, Mumbai Indians struggled to enactment unneurotic a competitory full and managed lone 147/8 successful 20 overs aft being sent successful to bat.Already eliminated from the playoff race, MI ne'er recovered aft slipping to 41/4 wrong six overs.Hardik Pandya (26) and Tilak Varma (20) tried to rebuild with a 43-run partnership, but it was Corbin Bosch’s unbeaten 32 disconnected 18 balls that helped Mumbai get adjacent to the 150-run mark.For KKR, Saurabh Dubey (2/34), Cameron Green (2/23), Kartik Tyagi (2/37) and Sunil Narine (1/13) starred with the ball.
