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Kolkata Knight Riders’ Varun Chakaravarthy | Photo Credit: K.R Deepak After being India’s best bowler in the shortest format for the 18 months building up to the 2026 T20 World Cup, Varun Chakaravarthy went through a lean trot in the public glare at the business end of the marquee event. The slump spilt over to…
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Miserly spell: Nirankar, who moved from Madhya Pradesh to Tamil Nadu to fuel his cricket dream, tightened the screws in the middle overs. | Photo Credit: G. KARTHIKEYAN When Dindigul Dragons strolled out for the Tamil Nadu Premier League season-opener here on Tuesday, there was uncertainty over how the 2024 title-winner would cope with the…
A tournament of two parts: Varun Chakaravarthy finished as the T20 World Cup’s joint-highest wicket-taker but, in the last five matches, conceded an alarming 11.84 runs per over. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The notion of balance between bat and ball in a T20 contest is like logic in a Bollywood potboiler. It simply isn’t…
Kolkata Knight Riders’s Varun Chakaravarthy bowls during a practice session on the eve of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 cricket match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, in Kolkata, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) head coach Abhishek Nayar on Wednesday expressed confidence that spinner Varun Chakaravarthy would bounce back…
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Hot commodity: Samson, who delivered a masterpiece at the ICC T20 World Cup and won the Lead Actor honours, is primed to extend his purple patch in Chennai’s Yellow. | Photo Credit: CSK History warns us of the paradox of choice and we are often reminded that an overabundance of excellent options is its own…
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In sport, coaches usually adapt a system to the strengths of the players available rather than the other way around. Players come with different skill sets: the left-arm spinner who is also a terrific fielder, the frontline batter who can bowl a few holding overs and maybe even pick up a wicket or two and…
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India’s Abhishek Sharma plays a shot against England during the T20 Match at the Eden Garden in Kolkata on January 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Varun Chakaravarthy wove his spin magic at the Eden Gardens — his IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders’ backyard — and opener Abhishek Sharma cracked a blistering half-century as…
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India’s Varun Chakaravarthy celebrate the dismissal of South Africa’s Heinrich Klaasen with Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya during the 2nd T20 match, at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on Sunday | Photo Credit: ANI Mystery spinner Varun Chakaravarthy has described the three-year gap from international cricket as “tough,” saying he had to completely overhaul his…
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Kolkata Knight Riders’ Varun Chakravarthy celebrates the wicket of Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians at the Eden Gardens, in Kolkata on May 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: K.R Deepak Varun Chakaravarthy’s ability to be consistently among wickets for Kolkata Knight…
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