Even after taking 5 wickets, Varun Chakraborty became a ‘zero’ from a hero, a shameful record was created with the defeat of Team India.
India vs South Africa
In the 4-match T20I series, India had started with a win on the South Africa tour, but things went wrong in the second match. Due to the brilliant bowling of host South Africa, they defeated Team India in the second match and achieved a 1-1 draw in the series. With this defeat at the hands of South Africa, Team India’s winning streak also came to a halt. The African team ended India’s winning streak of the last 11 T20I matches. In this match, Varun Chakraborty performed brilliantly with the ball and took 5 wickets but Team India could not avoid defeat. Varun Chakravarthy gave away 5 batsmen in 4 overs giving 17 runs and at one time had put the team in a strong position but the brilliant batting of Tristan Stubbs and Gerald Coetzee took the host team to victory. In this way a shameful record was added to the name of Varun Chakraborty.
Varun Chakraborty’s 5 wicket haul went in vain
Actually, India, batting first, scored 124 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. Only Hardik Pandya could play successfully from India’s side. Pandya scored the maximum 39 runs. After this, South Africa, who came to bat, made a better start. However, the team’s first wicket fell at 22 runs. Ryan became the victim of Arshdeep Singh after scoring 13 runs. After this, Varun Chakraborty came to bowl and gave the second blow to South Africa by dismissing Reeza Hendricks on the team score of 33 runs. After this, Varun Chakraborty dismissed Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller, reducing South Africa’s 6 wickets to 66 runs. However, Tristan Stubbs stood firm from one end and managed to lead his team to victory.
Shameful record registered in Varun’s name
In this way a very shameful record was registered in Varun’s name. In fact, this bowling performance of Varun Chakravarthy is the best T20I performance by a bowler from a Full Member Nation, in which his team has lost. Earlier this shameful record was in the name of Bangladesh bowler Mustafizur Rahman. Rahman took 5 wickets for 22 runs against New Zealand in Kolkata in 2016. However, Bangladesh had to face defeat in this match.
Best bowling for India in a losing match
- Test – Kapil Dev (9/83) vs West Indies
- ODI – Ajit Agarkar (6/42) vs Australia
- T20I- Varun Chakravarthy (5/17) vs South Africa*
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