IND vs SA: 5 Indian players who might miss the bus for T20I series
With the selectors looking to rest a few regular players in order to manage the workload, there would be debut caps on sale in the T20I series against South Africa.
2. Varun Chakravarthy
The architect turned professional cricketer, Varun Chakravarthy’s cricketing career has been nothing short of a mystery in itself. After coming up the ranks as a mystery bowler, Varun’s place in the playing 11 has become a mystery. The spinner has lost his touch after the initial 2020 and 2021 IPL seasons with KKR. It was Varun’s 2020 and 2021 IPL seasons that earned him a maiden call to the Team India setup and also earned him a fourth retention spot with KKR for the 2022 season.
In the six games that Varun has featured for Team India, he has managed to pick just two wickets. To everyone’s surprise, even after below-par international games, Chakravarthy was still called up for Team India’s T20 World Cup squad for UAE 2021. In the three world cup games that he featured in 2021, Varun did not manage to pick up a single wicket, and Chakravarthy’s confidence and career have gone downhill ever since.
In the 10 games, Chakravarthy has played for KKR in the 2022 IPL, he has the worst bowling average (49) amongst all the regular bowlers for KKR. The season has been so poor for Varun that, he has picked just six wickets in the 35 overs he has bowled across 10 innings. Team India’s spin bowling lineup looks sorted with Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, and Ravi Bishnoi, whom the Indian selectors will like to groom to reap benefits soon. Chakravarthy would have a difficult time cutting the chase for the South Africa series because all three bases appear to be covered in the spin department.
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