Kolkata Knight Rider released Piyush Chawla from their squad after his disappointing season at the IPL 2020. The leg-spinner joined the Chennai Super Kings and will be seen playing alongside MS Dhoni in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League. No sooner the Yellow Army bought Piyush, they took to social media and welcomed the leggie with a hilarious tweet. The admins of the Kolkata Knight Riders who obviously saw the tweet had a funny reply to the same. Piyush Chawla played for the Kolkata Knight Riders for six editions of the IPL. Chennai Super Kings Team in IPL 2020: Names of Players Bought by CSK in Auctions and Their Prices, Check Full Squad of MS Dhoni-Led Team.

However, Chawla had quite a disappointing season in IPL 2019 as he could only snap 10 wickets from 13 matches and he bowled at an economy of 8.96. His strike rate was 26.70 in the last edition of the IPL. He started off his IPL career by playing against the Kings XI Punjab from 2008-13. Now check out the hilarious banter between the two teams.

Here’s KKR’s reply

After getting selected for the Chennai Super Kings, he said,“As a player, you always want to be with a good team, play under a good captain and you can’t have a better team than CSK and a better leader than Mahi bhai. I can’t ask for more."

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