Published - Mar 3, 2025, 19:55 IST | Updated - Mar 27, 2025, 17:24 IST
Updated - Mar 27, 2025, 17:24 IST
Varun Chakravarthy recent spell against New Zealand on going Champions Trophy is been the talk of the town. Reason behind this is India didn't imported any challenging total scored only 249 runs. India batting had a surrel collapse at the start of the innings where they lost their Captain Rohit Sharma and Vice Captain Subhman Gill at early. They were 30/3 at the end of eight over.
It was Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel who revived the innings which looked completely lost at the beginning, they constructed the innings and laid a good foundation shreyas scored 79 and Axar Patel scored a well made 44 runs.
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Varun Chakravarthy To Take Care Of The Rest
After the departure of these two batsman, Hardik Pandya took care of the innings where he scored a well made 45 from 45 balls. After that rest of the batsman couldn't able to capatilize the momentum and felled like a bunch of cards. Only able to score 249 runs which was not that easy to defend in this modern cricket era. Where 300 plus target are not even safe. Now it was upto the bowlers to defend the given target which was quite hard.
But these types of matches only decide the true character of the team. Indian bowlers responded quickly and the score which looked cracky was handled by Indian bowlers who bowled out the black caps in 205 runs and topped the chart. It mainly happened due to Varun Chakravarthy Fifer who was quite difficult to read out. His co-partner Axar Patel hailed the performance of Varun describing he is very hard to predict. If you miss those you are packed up.
Axar On Varun Chakravarthy Brilliance
When asked about Varun Chakravarthy's important spell he said it was indeed some special spell. Chakravarthy in his spell claimed the wickets of opener Will Young, Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry completing his fifer conceding 42 runs only. Varun Chakravarthy didn't played for India much it was his second ODI match before debuting against England. He has played only 5 T20s claiming 14 wickets.
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Axar goes on to say that the T20 World Cup 2021 was a turning point in his career which depicted his lowest performance, but after that, the comeback he has done is truly remarkable, he has worked on his game and mental strength which is seen in his performance today, he was unreadable he is fast through in his hands if you won't pick him early it means you have been deemed into a spin web. Axar is too restrained about his performance saying he is always happy to contribute to the team's well-being.
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