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India's enigma spinner Varun Chakaravarthy says helium is reaping the rewards of adding much velocity and revolutions connected the ball.
The world's top-ranked bowler says helium perpetually pushes for improvement, whether it is adding a caller shot oregon perfecting the existing variations.
"So I person decidedly worked connected fewer aspects of my bowling specified arsenic speed, velocity and much revs. People bash enactment connected variations also, but I worked connected perfecting my existing balls, truthful that helped a lot," helium said aft India's 93-run triumph implicit Namibia successful a T20 World Cup present connected Thursday (February 12, 2026).
In the past, Chakaravarthy has spoken astir however shifting to over-spin from broadside rotation contributed immensely to his stellar success. He has taken 63 wickets successful 38 T20Is astatine an awesome mean of 15.19 and frugal system complaint of 7.06.
He was excessively bully for the Namibian batters connected Thursday night, ending with 3 wickets successful 12 balls. Such is his accuracy that helium dismissed opener Louren Steenkamp with a googly disconnected his precise archetypal shot of the match.
Chakaravarthy has besides worked connected his travel done that is allowing him to get much zip disconnected the surface.
As idiosyncratic who is ever uncovering ways to get better, Chakaravarthy said helium is regularly moving connected adding caller balls to his lethal armoury.
"That has been my process. I person ever had immoderate transportation coming up...It's up to me, if I americium courageous enough, I volition effort it successful the adjacent match, but it depends," helium said.
"There are fewer balls which conscionable clicked for maine successful the matches, and determination person been fewer variations which I person been trying for the past six years which did not travel out," helium said.
Not that helium is complaining arsenic a bowler but Chakaravarthy was amazed to spot the behaviour of the transportation successful the archetypal 2 games successful Mumbai and Delhi.
"Again, same, if you spot the matches that we person played, the bilaterals starring up to this World Cup, they were each precise flat. This (Delhi) was decidedly a small surprising, adjacent the archetypal lucifer and this wicket also. But we person to accommodate ourselves, immoderate comes our way.
"Today also, it was keeping a spot low, but I wouldn't accidental determination was a batch of turn, but keeping low," helium pointed out.
Chakaravarthy expects the dew to play a large relation successful Colombo similar it did connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) night.
"Dew does play a large origin erstwhile you are bowling 2nd and if you person to defend, sometimes it volition play a large factor. There was a batch of dew contiguous also, but we were capable to bash well.
"But we are besides experienced due to the fact that we play a batch of IPL, we cognize however to vessel if the dew comes in," helium said up of the Pakistan game.
Giving the absorption owed credit, Chakaravarthy was impressed with the tactics and variations employed by Namibia skipper and spinner Gerhard Erasmus, who bowled circular limb astatine times and besides from mode down the stumps, leaving the batters successful 2 minds.
"I would accidental helium bowled precise tactically. He was precise large and I could spot that the mode they had planned their bowling, they had worked successful and determination was a batch of thought down it.
"If you spot the past 4 overs, their bowling, they had precise plans and they executed them. So, they did travel up with bully probe and plan," added the Indian spinner.
