Varun Chakaravarthy of India celebrates the wicket of Harry Brook of England during the 4th T20I lucifer betwixt India and England held astatine the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune, India connected the 31st January 2025. (Sportzpics)
Indian spinner Varun Chakravarthy has been nominated for ICC’s subordinate of the period grant for January aft his spellbinding performances against England successful the 5-match T20I series.
Varun snapped up 14 wickets successful the bid astatine an mean of 9.85 and astatine an system complaint of 7.66 which helped India clinch the bid 4-1.
Such was his interaction that helium is besides being considered arsenic a precocious summation to the Indian Champions Trophy squad, provided helium performs arsenic good successful the ODI bid against England.
Three talented spinners successful the premix arsenic the nominees for ICC Men's Player of the Month for January are announced 👏
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“Yeah look, helium has surely shown thing different. I recognize that it is simply a T20 format but helium has intelligibly got thing antithetic astir him. So we conscionable wanted to person an enactment and spot what we tin bash with him,” India skipper Rohit Sharma had said successful the pre-match property league up of the 1st ODI successful Nagpur connected Wednesday.
“Clearly during the bid it presents america an accidental to play him astatine immoderate signifier and spot what helium is susceptible of. Right present we are not reasoning astir whether we are going to instrumentality him oregon not but decidedly helium volition beryllium successful contention. If things program retired truly good for america and helium does what is required past decidedly determination is thing that we request to deliberation about,” helium had added.
Along with Varun, West Indian spinner Jomel Warrican was different nominee, aft helping his broadside gully the two-match distant Test bid against Pakistan. The left-arm spinner Warrican was named subordinate of the bid against Pakistan aft emerging arsenic the apical wicket-taker, grabbing 19 wickets.
His Pakistan counterpart Noman Ali, who took 16 wickets successful that series, is besides successful contention for the award.
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