2026 T20 World Cup winner Varun Chakaravarthy came into national reckoning after strong performance in the 2020 and 2021 IPL season and was drafted into thesquad for 2021 T20 World Cup a tournament which India got knocked out of in the first round itself as a result of which the leg spinner was one of the player to bedropped from theside for a prolong period and had to wait for a comeback till 2024.
The Phase
However, Chakaravarthy revealed an even more difficult phase he had to go through early in his career during the 2021 IPL edition, when the league was suspended after some players tested positive for COVID-19, including Varun Chakaravarthy.
The Expierence
Talking to Sahiba Bali about that particular phase, Chakaravarthy revealed that he received abuse and death threats on social media after he tested positive for the virus.
In the words of Varun Chakaravarthy, “The worst was when IPL was stopped in 2021. It got stopped halfway because I got Covid. I was the first person to test positive. So the whole IPL had stopped.”
The Reaction
Varun Chakaravarthy further said that people had nothing to do at that time, and IPL was the only way they passed their time, so they were angry when it was stopped. “There were people abusing me. Back then, IPL was the only way people were passing time. They were so angry that it was stopped. People were saying, ‘Why don’t you just die.’ It was that bad, he said”.
It is to be noted that the 2021 season of the Indian Premier League was stopped mid-way when two KKR players, Varun Chakaravarthy and Sandeep Warrier, tested positive for COVID-19.
The Reason
Chakravarthy, who went out of the biosecure bubble to undergo scans regarding a shoulder injury, might have been exposed to the various reports suggested at that time.
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