Watch: Varun Chakravarthy castles Litton Das with a peach in 2nd IND vs BAN T20I
Published - 09 Oct 2024, 09:46 PM | Updated - 09 Oct 2024, 11:50 PM
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India National Cricket Team spinner Varun Chakravarthy is making sure that he makes his comeback series a memorable one. The mystery spinner has kept his team in the hunt in the ongoing second T20I against the Bangladesh National Cricket Team, which is underway at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.
Varun Chakravarthy, who is making his India return after three years, made sure that he enters the wickets column in the ongoing second T20I against Bangladesh National Cricket Team as well. The spinner provided his team with the important wicket of Litton Das in the chase.
On the first ball that he bowled in the game, Varun Chakravarthy came up with the jaffa and picked a wicket for his team inside the powerplay. The mystery spinner made the Bangladesh National Cricket Team batter look clueless and sent him packing after a bit of a start with the bat.
Chakravarthy bowled a googly on the shorter side and Litton Das looked to swipe it across the line. The keeper-batter got beaten due to the lack of bounce and the stumps got disturbed.
Varun Chakaravarthy removes Litton Das
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Varun Chakravarthy registeres figures of 2/19 in the four overs
Chakravarthy came up with the magical effort with the ball yet again for the team. After removing Litton Das, he removed Rishad Hossain as well as Hardik Pandya took a sensational catch to remove the batter and gave the mystery spinner his second wicket.
Varun Chakravarthy registered the figures of 2/19 in the four overs that he bowled. He made Bangladesh batters look clueless and made sure that he helped his team win the second game of the series and take an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the series with one more game to go.
Varun Chakravarthy, who picked three wickets in the last game, has been making sure that he puts up a great performance in his comeback series and sends a strong message to the selectors. He so far has taken 5 wickets in the series and would be eager to take more scalps in the next game.
Apart from Varun Chakravarthy, Nitish Reddy picked two wickets. While Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Yadav and Riyan Parag also bagged one wicket each. They restricted Bangladesh to 135 runs to win the game by 86 runs.
Wasim Jaffer lauds Nitish Reddy and Rinku Singh
Former India National Cricket Team player Wasim Jaffer lauded young batters Nitish Reddy and Rinku Singh for their performance with the bat in the second T20I. He believes that it was a terrific counter-attacking partnership and credited the team for winning the series. He said:
"Always good to see young potential being converted into performance. Terrific counter-attacking partnership between Nitish and Rinku after India lost 3 weeks in the PP. Bangladesh were never in the game after that. Congratulations, India, on sealing the series."
With the bat, India was reeling at 41/3. It was then when Rinku Singh (53), along with Nitish Kumar Reddy (74), bailed the team out of trouble and brought them back into the game. The duo added 108 runs off 59 balls and put Bangladesh National Cricket Team on backfoot in the game.
