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15 hours ago · Varun Chakravarthy returned to the national squad as BCCI announced the 15-member Indian squad for the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh on Saturday (September 28).
Jul 30, 2023 · Chennai Super Kings (CSK) head coach Stephen Fleming in IPL 2023 said that Varun was a net bowler with the franchise and that it hurts that CSK missed out on having him in the squad.
Personal life. Chakravarthy also made a cameo appearance in the 2014 Indian Tamil-language sports drama film Jeeva as a club cricketer. [23][24] On 11 December 2020, he married his longtime girlfriend Neha Khedekar in a closed ceremony in Chennai. [25]
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- Born on August 29, 1991
- Quit Cricket to Focus on Academics
- An Architect by Profession
- Tennis Ball Cricket Rekindled His Love For The Game
- Quit His Job at The Age of 25
- The Variations
- TNPL Break
- Straight from Fourth-Division to Vijay Hazare and Ranji
- A Short Stint at The CSK Nets
- Training with Sunil Narine, Piyush Chawla and Kuldeep Yadav
Varun Chakravarthy is currently 27 years old. He was born in Tamil Nadu on August 29, 1991. He hadn’t played much cricket until he was 13 years old.
Varun played junior cricket for nearly four to five years till he was 17 years old. He was a wicket-keeper batsman initially. However, after several rejections in the age group, he decided to give up the sport to focus on his academics.
After parting ways with cricket, Varun completely indulged himself in his academics. He pursued a Bachelor of Architecture degree at the SRM University in Chennai which is a 5-year course. Then he worked as a freelance architect and also joined a firm later on.
While he was working, Varun also started playing tennis ball cricket. He learned numerous tricks with the ball while playing the tennis ball cricket and also took part in a few local tournaments. This helped him rediscover his lost love for the game of cricket.
Having rediscovered his passion, Varun couldn’t keep himself away from the game for quite long. He quit his job in an architecture firm to pursue a career in cricket. He then joined CromBest Cricket Club as a seam-bowling all-rounder. “I don’t know, I just built up so much pressure inside me and it blasted… I just quit. I walked in and right away s...
Varun has got quite a few variations up his sleeve. He can bowl the off-break, leg-break, googly, carrom ball, flipper, top-spinner and a slider aimed at the toes of the batsmen to york them. “When I came back from injury, I didn’t want to take up fast bowling again,” he says. “In those six months, I started bowling carrom ball and other stuff with...
Varun first attended the TNPL trails as a batsman. But looking at the immense competition, he decided to bowl the carrom ball just because he had to do something different. A video analyst called Hari was impressed, and he passed on the word to Robin Singh (Karaikudi Kaalai’s head coach). Then, the side decided to pick him. Chakravarthy picked up 9...
This mystery spinner, a fourth-division cricketer until last year, has now played the Vijay Hazare Trophy and also made his Ranji Trophy debut. He bowled 86.4 overs in the VHT this year and picked up 22 wickets at an average of 17 and economy rate of 4.23. He was also the second-highest wicket-taker in the tournament. His best figures were 5/38 and...
Varun was the nets bowler to the CSK team while they were training in Chennai. He was quite happy to bowl to the superstars. However, his happiness was short-lived with the CSK matches being shifted to Pune previous season. “Net bowlers are usually from the first division or Ranji trophy level, and I was only a fourth division cricketer,” Varun say...
Later, AR Srikkanth, the video analyst of KKR helped him get an opportunity to bowl at their nets. Varun honed his skills with the guidance of Sunil Narine, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav and Carl Crowe, Sunil Narine’s personal coach who also trained Kuldeep. “Suddenly AR Srikkanth, the video analyst of KKR called me through Dinesh Karthik. I stayed ...
Varun Chakravarthy who? Varun Chakravarthy began playing cricket when he was 13 years old, and until 17 was a wicketkeeper-batsman. Then, after being rejected several times in age-group...
Jul 28, 2023 · The breakthrough helped Varun join hands with Vijay Cricket Club, one of the prestigious teams in the Chennai league. And in his very first year, again, the team won the VAP Trophy beating...
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Oct 28, 2020 · Varun, who had earlier worked as a freelance architect after pursuing architecture at Chennai's SRM University, used to visit his grandmother's close relatives who live in Mavelikkara and Kilimanoor. According to his father, Varun understands Malayalam pretty well.
