Team India’s mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty returned to the national team after a gap of 1066 days. He played his last match for India during the 2021 T20 World Cup, where India’s performance was very disappointing. In his comeback match against Bangladesh in Gwalior on Sunday, he recorded his best performance of 3 for 31, contributing to India’s seven-wicket win in the first T20I of the three-match series.
However, even in this match, Varun Chakraborty’s start was not that good. He gave away 15 runs in the very first over of his spell. However after this Made a comeback by dismissing Tauheed Hridoy in the second over and Jaker Ali in the third over. After the match, Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir was seen talking to Chakraborty for a long time.
Ravi Shastri decoded the conversation between Gautam Gambhir and Varun Chakraborty
After the end of the match, a very serious conversation was seen between Gambhir and Varun, which Ravi Shastri tried to decode. 33 year old spinner Varun and Gambhir have worked together before also. When Kolkata Knight Riders won the 2024 IPL title, Gambhir was the mentor of this franchise team and Varun also plays for the same team.
Team India’s former head coach and current commentator Ravi Shastri, seeing this conversation, said, ‘You can see that Varun Chakraborty and Gautam Gambhir are talking to each other. Varun took three wickets, Gautam must have watched Varun’s bowling closely in KKR also. Maybe Gautam was talking to him about bowling and at what speed he was bowling.
Shastri further said, ‘Or he might be telling as to which fielding he should bowl. Morne Morkel is also present there, who can improve Varun’s game a lot. IPL 2024 was very good for Varun, he took 21 wickets in 14 matches.