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- But a knee injury he sustained during the second match relegated him to the sidelines and prompted him to become a spinner. Having copped punishment from a bevy of batsmen in tennis-ball cricket on 18-yard pitches, Varun expanded his repertoire, transforming himself into a mystery spinner.
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Jul 30, 2023 · Varun isn’t among the best fielders and he’s candid about it. Room for improvement: While Varun’s fielding and catching has been on the up, the leggie is candid that he has a long way to go ...
- Varun Chakravarthy – The Beginning
- Domestic T20 Hero
- IPL Jackpot and Setback
- Redemption
Hopeful cricketers start really young these days, but Chakravarthy was a relatively late bloomer. He is said to have been a wicketkeeper till he was 17, when he realised things weren’t going his way and shelved the plans of becoming a professional cricket player. Instead, he enrolled in a five-year course on architecture in Chennai. “Around 2015, w...
Chakravarthy’s claim to fame came through the Tamil Nadu Premier League, a domestic T20 competition in India. “I pretty much started my spin bowling in 2018, that’s when I got my breakthrough in TNPL,” Chakravarthy said. His ‘mystery’ spin regularly befuddled batsmen in the tournament, and his economy rate was impressive throughout. In 10 games for...
As is now commonplace in the IPL, Chakravarthy, little known outside Tamil Nadu circles, became a bumper hit in the 2019 auction. KXIP were desperate to bag the mystery spinner, and splurged as much as INR 8.4 crore, the joint-highest bid that year. It was 42 times his base price of INR 20 lakh. However, things didn’t materialise as he would have e...
With Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav and Chris Green already part of the line-up at KKR, it looked unlikely that Chakravarthy would get a long run in the IPL in 2020. After his uninspiring time at KXIP, there were a few reservations, but Chakravarthy proved the doubters wrong. Under Karthik, Chakravarthy got a fair run in the first half of the season, ...
May 10, 2023 · Two years later, he seems to have evolved into the bowler India thought he was, writes Shashwat Kumar. Mystery spin is an enviable commodity in the shortest format because it keeps the batters guessing and disrupts their hitting rhythm. As an art, though, it is tough to master.
Mar 16, 2019 · Varun Chakaravarthy: The mystery spinner Delivering googlies has become a way of life for Varun Chakaravarthy, the joint-highest paid IPL player this season By Rajiv Singh, Forbes India Staff
Apr 28, 2023 · N. Sudarshan. READ LATER. PRINT. On a roll: Varun has been in the thick of things for the Kolkata side. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR. The popular theory is that a ‘mystery spinner’ not...
Jun 20, 2023 · When he started off as a mystery spinner, Varun had seven variations: off-break, leg-break, googly, carrom-ball, top-spinner, slider and flipper. But after the 2022 season, where batsmen were able to get back and cut or hit him over mid-wicket, it appeared as if the mystery had been decoded.
Dec 18, 2018 · Having copped punishment from a bevy of batsmen in tennis-ball cricket on 18-yard pitches, Varun expanded his repertoire, transforming himself into a mystery spinner. Mystery...
