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Varun Chakravarthy left a statement on the pitch during the ongoing 1st of the three-match T20I series between India and Afghanistan. Chakravarthy was among the bowlers who made their return for the India National Cricket Team after battling with fitness-related issues.
Ahead of the 2026 Asian Games and the ODI World Cup in 2027, his return to form is crucial for the team. Varun Chakravarthy proved his worth by uprooting the leg stump of the middle-order Afghanistan National Cricket Team batter Darwish Rasooli.
Varun Chakravarthy clean bowled Afghanistan batter Darwish Rasooli
On the sixth delivery of the seventh over of the first innings, Chakravarthy kept the ball slightly on the fuller length, which turned sharply into the batter. It was a fast delivery from the spinner, which tricked the batter.
As the ball was pitched fuller, the batter could have easily played it on the front foot, but Darwish Rasooli stayed on his back foot to push the ball to the leg side. The right-hander misjudged the line, spin, and speed of the ball completely, which costed his wicket.
Varun Chakravarthy hit the leg stump of the batter; India got his fifth wicket of the match, and Afghanistan was in deep trouble at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
Watch the dismissal here:
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Varun Chakravarthy spent only 16 runs in his spell
The Men in Blue completely dominated the Afghanistan cricket team from the beginning to the end of the innings. The host, Afghanistan, was not able to recover from the early blows.
In the innings, Shreyas Iyer, the Indian cricket team captain, used seven different bowlers in the match. Varun Chakravarthy was very economical with the ball. He not only took the wicket of Darwish Rasooli but also did not allow the opposing batters to open their arms to rotate the strike swiftly.
In his four-over spell, Chakravarthy clinched one scalp for an economy rate of only 4.0. He offered only 16 runs to the Afghanistan cricket team.
Record for the Afghanistan cricket team batter Azmatullah Omarzai
Azmatullah Omarzai and Mohammad Nabi were the only two batters who showed some resistance against the Indian bowling attack. While the frontline bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun, and Axar Patel delivered well tonight, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Shivam Dube proved too costly for the team with the ball.
Omarzai completed the innings as the highest run-scorer for Afghanistan, with an unbeaten 64 runs from 44 balls, supported by 4 fours and 4 sixes. According to stats published by Cricbuzz, the unbeaten 64 scored by Azmatullah Omaezai scored toonight is the second highest by a batter from number 6 batting position or lower in T20I match India, only behind Dasun Shanaka’s 74* in Dharamsala in 2022; it is also the joint highest for an Afghan batter vs India in T20Is alongside Ibrahim Zadran in Dubai in 2022.
