'If You Have Given Your Permission...': Piyush Chawla's Cheeky Response to Query on Playing in IPL Next Year

Mumbai Indians legspinner Piyush Chawla is hopeful of extending his IPL career and has no plans to call it quits. Chawla has played 191 matches in the IPL for four different franchises including  Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings and MI feels it’s not over for him yet.

During an interaction with the media after MI suffered their ninth defeat of IPL 2024, Chawla was asked if he will be seen again next season.

The 35-year-old gave a cheeky reply.

“You tell me, if I should be playing with the way I’m bowling? If you have given your permission, of course I will see you somewhere next time,” he said.

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Chawla has taken 10 wickets from 10 games in what has been a forgettable  season for five-time champions MI who earlier this week became the first team to be eliminated from the playoffs race.

On Saturday, they lost to KKR for the second time in IPL 2024 and will now hope to end their campaign on a high when they take on Lucknow Super Giants on May 17.

Chasing 158 in a rain-curtailed affair at the Eden Gardens, MI were kept to 139/8 with KKR winning by 18 runs and also become the first team to qualify for the playoffs.

Chawla feels MI failed to gather momentum at the right time and more importantly, they failed to fire as a unit.

“T20 is about momentum, and we didn’t get that momentum right from the beginning. Some days we bowled well, but our batting didn’t click, and sometimes our batters did well, but the bowlers ended up leaking runs,” Chawla said.

“As a unit, we have failed in a few games, and we have to accept that as a team. We have a brilliant lineup, but things didn’t fall into place. Today also, we started off brilliantly, but that spell of (Sunil) Narine and Varun (Chakravarthy) actually made the difference. You have to give credit to their bowlers,” he added.