Varun Chakravarthy again showed his brilliance with the ball. He took five wickets against South Africa in the 2nd T20I match in the ongoing series. In this article, we’ll show you how Varun fooled Marco Jenson and took off the middle stump.
Batting first, India scored 124 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. Only Hardik Pandya could play from India. Pandya scored the highest score of 39 runs. After this, South Africa started batting better. However, the team’s first wicket fell for 22 runs. Riyan became the victim of Arshdeep Singh after scoring 13 runs. After this, Varun Chakravarthy came to bowl and he gave South Africa another blow by dismissing Reeza Hendricks for a team score of 33 runs. After this, Varun Chakravarthy dismissed Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klassen and David Miller and dropped South Africa’s 6 wickets for 66 runs. However, Tristan Stubbs stood firm from one end and gave his team victory.
In this way, a very embarrassing record was recorded in Varun’s name. Actually, this bowling performance of Varun Chakravarthy is the best T20I performance of a bowler of a full member nation, in which his team has lost. Earlier, this embarrassing record was in the name of Bangladesh bowler Mustafizur Rahman. Rahman took 5 wickets for 22 runs against New Zealand in Kolkata in 2016. However, Bangladesh had to face defeat in this match.
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Chakravarthy said in a after interview, “We played the Bangladesh tour and he was coaching the team. And definitely we spoke a lot and he gave me a lot of role clarity. He told me, even if you go for 30-40 runs, it doesn’t matter. All you have to look is to pick wickets. So that’s your role in the team. And yeah, the clarity which they gave definitely helped me.”