CHENNAI: Once Jasprit Bumrah was ruled out of the Champions Trophy, India were left without an X-factor in the bowling line-up.
It was at this point that the team management and selection committee pulled a rabbit out of the hat and included mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy as the fifth tweaker in the 15-member squad. The planning was meticulous too. He was not played in the games against Bangladesh and Pakistan, who might have read him slightly better, and was unleashed against New Zealand in the third round-robin match.
