Varun Chakravarthy Creates HISTORY; Becomes First Player Ever To...

India are currently taking on England in the third T20I of the five-match series at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. The Men in Blue are looking to seal a win in this match to get an unassailable 3-0 lead and earn a series victory with two more matches to go. One of the players who India were looking forward to for getting this important victory was their lead spinner Varun Chakravarthy. He delivered what was exactly required of him as he continued his brilliant form.

Varun Chakravarthy ripped the England batting lineup apart as he picked up 5 wickets for 24 runs in his four overs. Coming into the third T20I, Chakravarthy had already picked up 5 wickets in the series; picking three in the first and 2 in the second game respectively. The spinner now has 10 wickets in this series.

Chakravarthy now becomes the first player in history to take 10 wickets in a single bilateral T20I series between India and England.

Varun Chakravarthy picked up the wickets of Jos Buttler, Jamie Smith, Jamie Overton, Brydon Carse and Jofra Archer. He becomes the third Indian player to take more than one five-wicket haul in the shortest format of the game.

Here are the players with five-wicket hauls for India in T20Is:

2 - Varun Chakravarthy(vs SA, ENG)*

2 - Kuldeep Yadav (vs ENG, SA)

2 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar (vs SA, AFG)

1 - Yuzvendra Chahal (vs ENG)

1 - Deepak Chahar (vs BAN)

India won the toss and elected to bowl first. England got off to a poor start, as Hardik Pandya got the early wicket of Phil Salt. Jos Buttler and Ben Duckett got them back into the game with a half-century stand. However, the Indian spinners, especially Varun Chakravarthy ran through the English middle order. Liam Livingstone played a fighting innings of 43, as England could managed 171/9 at the end of the 20 overs.

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