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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) caput manager Abhishek Nayar connected Wednesday expressed assurance that spinner Varun Chakaravarthy would bounce backmost successful the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Varun conceded a batch of runs successful the T20 World Cup and successful KKR’s IPL opener against Mumbai Indians (0/48 successful 4 overs) astatine the Wankhede Stadium the different night.
However, Nayar solidly backed the spinner. “He has gone done a batch much than this. He has accomplished a batch implicit the past year, which has accrued expectations...Statistically, he’s beauteous overmuch bowled the akin speeds that helium ever has.
“Hawkeye suggests helium has bowled the aforesaid lengths, but sometimes players play you better,” Nayar said connected the eve of KKR’s lucifer against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
“It (Wankhede) was a transportation that challenged each spinners...and Varun bowls (in) those phases wherever he’s ever going to beryllium challenged. As a franchise, arsenic enactment staff, we backmost him. Teams are playing him well. Doesn’t mean helium can’t travel back. It conscionable means that it’s different situation successful his life.
Kolkata Knight Riders’s Varun Chakaravarthy bowls during a signifier league connected the eve of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 cricket lucifer against Sunrisers Hyderabad, successful Kolkata, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK
“At times you privation to support a bowler and bring him astatine a clip wherever you consciousness helium tin beryllium much effective. But the quality of the crippled is (such) that sometimes you privation to enactment your champion players successful a presumption to perform. If helium picks up wickets there, he’s a antithetic bowler.”
Nayar said the enactment staff, including mentor D.J. Bravo and bowling manager Tim Southee, had been moving with the little experienced bowlers successful the broadside to bring retired the champion successful them.
