The ‘mystery’ spinner ‘mysterious’ Varun Chakravarthy finally decomposed as India, fresh from winning the ODI 2-1 series, launched into the International T20 series against Sri Lanka, at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday night.
Since he performed well for motorists Kolkata Knight in IPL last year in the UAE, voters wanted to try Chakravarthy on the international stage.
They feel that with the mixture of spinning, spinning legs and ball carrom, Tamil Nadu’s tweaker can be a ‘surprise weapon’ of India in the T20 World Cup in the UAE in October-November.
With a wide variation bag, Chakravarthy – Discovery of the Tamil Nadu Premier League – can be unpredictable, and thus difficult to beat.
After missing the previous opportunity due to injury and other fitness problems, Chakravarthy would be interested in maximizing this opportunity, which of course his last shot was to book a bed in the troops at the T20 World Cup this year.
If the 29-year-old Bowler doesn’t play now, then he can smell his hopes to make cuts for big goodbye events.
While Chakravarthy could replace the Chinaman Bowler Kuldeep Yadav, who played the first two odi but was rested for the third, Skipper Shikhar Dhawan said in the night matches as they did in the ODI series, India would play the most powerful squad in two.
T20i matches, and won a series, before experimenting in the third odi.
That means people like Devdutt Padikkal and Gaekwad Ruturaj may have to wait before getting their first international hat.
Buzz is that Batsmen Prithvi Shaw and Yadav Suryakumar can immediately go to England to join the test team.
Until now, deadly Duo Mumbai will be seen to get more running on Sundays to improve their reputation.
It would be interesting to see if coach Rahul Dravid stayed with Pandey people – experienced – who recorded a score of 26, 37 & 11 in the ODI series, or finally showed him the door.
Did he play both ‘Keeper-Batsmen-Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson – or choose one among them? In Bowling, Regular Bhuivneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar and Yuzvendra Chahal, who all rested from Odi Final, returned to XI, which meant that the two Leggie Rahul Chahar and Chetan Sakaria left arm maker – both were impressed when taking five names against Sri Lanka on debut ODI They on Friday – can be allowed to warm the bench again.
India will also be interested in the hardik pandya all-rounder, which has done a little tour with bats and balls, finding several forms in T20IS.
After punching on their weight in this series, Sri Lanka will undoubtedly be supported by the thrilling three-last goal in the final ODI, even when India plays five debutants.
At Avishka Fernando, who stroked two consecutive centuries in Odis, Bhankuka Rakapaksa, Charith Asalanka and Chamika Karunatne – dangerous batsman at No 8, they have a bright nucleus future when it comes to hitting.
The performance of Wanindu Hasaranga, Praveen Jayawickrama and Akila Dananjaya against India in the ODI series shows that Sri Lanka still has talent in the Round Department.
Among the Pacers, Dushantha Chameera was impressed with its steps and spirits.