He scalped nine wickets in three matches in India's triumphant Champions Trophy 2025 campaign.
The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) mystery-spinner Varun Chakravarthy revealed that he has been working on new bowling tricks ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 opening clash. The KKR player believes that maintaining consistency is the “toughest thing” on a big stage like IPL but he is fully committed to achieving it.
“The main thing is working on consistency, which is the toughest thing to master and I am putting in constant work in order to achieve that”, he said in a release.
The 33-year-old added that he is now working on some new variations to pull up his game in the upcoming edition of the IPL.
“Of course, I am working on a few other deliveries which I’m hoping will come off nicely in the upcoming games”, revealed the KKR spinner.
The Kolkata franchise added Varun to the squad in 2020. Since then, the spinner has been the team’s mainstay alongside veteran Sunil Narine. This spin bowling pair was instrumental in KKR’s victorious campaign last year. He also became the second-highest wicket-taker of the season with 21 scalps.
As per ESPN Cricinfo, Varun has scalped 14 wickets in 10 matches against RCB at an economy of 6.79 while maintaining an average of 18.28. His heroics include a stunning three-wicket haul in 2023 at the Chinnaswamy Stadium to steal a victory for KKR by 21 runs.
While talking about achieving success against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), the player brushed aside the luck factor. He stated he simply took advantage of the favourable match situations that helped him to bring out his best against them.
“Nothing in specific, just the situation of those matches which helped me pick wickets. In all those games the conditions and the situations were completely favourable towards us so I was able to extract the best possible result”, informed Varun.
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He believes that the defending champions have arranged a strong team from the mega-auction. According to him, if they could “crack the code” early in the season, they might have higher chances to defend their title.
“The squad looks good. I think it’s about cracking the code and having the best playing XI performing consistently. If we are able to get a set core in the first three matches, then we have great chances ahead in this season”, explained the spinner.
The three-time IPL winner will lock horns with RCB in the tournament opener at Eden Gardens tomorrow.
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