IPL Change Varun Chakravarthy Life
It's that time of the year again when excitement is in the air. Hope, anxiety and nerves grip the cricketers as they look forward to the Indian Premier League auctions. The auctions in the past have proved to be life-changing ones for many. As the players prepare to go under the hammer yet again for the 2020 season, cricketers share their auction day experiences which left them emotional and stunned on the big fat payday. Mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy triggered a bidding war before he was finally bought by Kings XI Punjab for Rs 8.4 crore, 42 times his base price, in the 2019 IPL auctions. He recalls the frenetic day when he 'literally went blank'. Ahead of the auction, I didn't have huge expectations. I just wanted to get picked at the base price (of Rs 20 lakh), nothing else. Yes, I was a bit nervous but I did sleep the night before the auction. The nervousness wasn't extreme but there was curiosity. On the auction day, I was in my hometown Thanja...