Among the longest-serving active Indian cricketers at the moment, Piyush Chawla is top of the list. While the star-leg spinner has not played for India since 2012, he remains among the best bowlers in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and has been a key part of the Mumbai Indians (MI) camp in the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
Chawla was part of both the 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 Cricket World Cup-winning Indian teams under MS Dhoni's captaincy. He made his debut for India in a Test match in England in 2006 at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium in Mohali.
Chawla was the second youngest Indian to debut for India in Test cricket after Sachin Tendulkar (16 years, 205 days). At the time of his maiden appearance for India under Rahul Dravid's captaincy, the leg-spinner was aged just 17 years and 75 days.
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Piyush Chawla Reveals Retirement Plans
Talking about his retirement plans, Chawla stated that he will play longer than MS Dhoni. For those unversed, Dhoni is still going strong at the age of 43 in in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) despite quitting international cricket in 2020.
Chawla revealed that Prithvi Shaw once told him to stop playing. The veteran spinner stated that he replied with a cheekky reference to the father-soin pair of Sachin and Arjun Tendulkar, who he has played for. Chawla is teammates with Arjun at MI while he played with Sachin for Team India in both Test and ODI cricket including the 2011 World Cup.
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"Mahi bhai. A while ago, Prithvi Shaw told me 'Bas karo yaar ab PC bhai'. I said, I've played with Sachin paaji, and now playing with his son. I am playing with you, and after playing with you son, I will retire," Chawla said on an interaction on Shubhankar Mishra's Youtube channel on being who will retire first between him and Dhoni.