SA vs IND | Twitter swoons as clueless Miller falls prey to Varun’s bag of tricks to complete scintillating fifer

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Arijit Kundu
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When making a comeback, it's important to bury the past and start afresh. Varun Chakravarthy’s comeback to India has been nothing short of an extraordinary turnaround from the time he was a part of the 2021 T20 World Cup, with a fifer against South Africa serving as the pinnacle of his performance.

Winning the toss and asking India to bat first under overcast conditions bore sweet fruits for the Proteas unit, courtesy of a good start with the ball from the pacers. The spinners added to the visitors' woes with Hardik Pandya’s 39* and Axar Patel’s 27 steering them to 124 runs. What seemed like a chasable total took a wayward turn for the hosts as fell like a pack of cards against Varun Chakravarthi. The mystery spinner removed Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller in a single over to claim a memorable fifer. 

Having cleaned up Aiden Markram, Reeza Hendricks, and Marco Jansen in his first three overs, Chakravarthy turned his attention to Klaasen in the 13th over. The batter was lured by a fuller one outside the stumps leading to a simple Rinku Singh catch at long off on the first over of the 13th over. The very next ball, Miller played the wrong line off a length delivery and saw his off stump get shattered. The right-arm spinner bowled the wrong’un, pitched at the middle stump line that turned away enough to whisker past the outside edge of the southpaw and knock the off stump. Being able to showcase his potential on the International stage and turn the game on its head, the Twitterverse showered praise for the Tamil Nadu craftsman.

 What a delivery

It's fun

Pretty good delivery

Smart

Magician

Well played

All hail

Beauty

Sad

Superb

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