New Delhi: It's not a secret that besides cricket, India legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal is a master at the game of chess as well having represented the country at the junior level before turning to bat and ball. But you don't often see cricketers from two rival teams spreading out the chess mat on board a flight and try to checkmate each other. That's what happened when India vs New Zealand turned into mind games as Chahal beat Kiwi legspinner Ish Sodhi all ends up. 


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The two teams were together on a flight to Thiruvananthapuram for the third T20I, which India won on Tuesday to claim the series 2-1. But long before that, Chahal had beaten New Zealand single-handedly mid-air, foxing Sodhi on the chess board. 



But Sodhi was in no mood to give up after losing the match on a mobile application and demanded a rematch. But the Kiwi spinner lost that too and hailed Chahal the champion


He tweeted, “Rematch has already happened… fair to say, chess champion for a reason @yuzi_chahal #toogood”



Chahal was quick to remind Sodhi that it's 2-0.



Sodhi then suggested that he had enough time to make it even as it was a long flight.



Round 3, it seems, happened at the hotel in Thiruvananthapuram and looks like Chahal was the winner there as well, completing the hat-trick.



A day later, on Tuesday, Chahal bowled brilliantly with the ball as well, delivering a crucial two-over spell of 0/8 in India six-run win in the rain-curtailed third T20I against the Black Caps