Rohit Sharma is currently the captain in the ODI format. He has already retired from T20Is and Tests as well. However, under his captaincy, India won the T20 World Cup and the Champions Trophy as well. India spinner Varun Chakravarthy, in a recent interaction with Ravichandran Ashwin, talked in detail about his captaincy style and the conversation he had with Rohit while taking DRS calls.

“I can’t mention the exact words, since this is a family show. I can’t use those words. He asked me, “Macha are you sure it’s hitting the stumps or are you bluffing me. And a conversation like that. If it does not go his way, he is exasperated,” Varun Chakaravarthy said on R Ashwin’s YouTube channel.

He also opined on the difference between the captaincy style of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

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“Virat is a true leader. When you just see him, when you just observe what he is doing and you must have also noticed the match against Pakistan, you were also there. We lost first two wickets to Shaheen Shah Afridi. But when Virat came, he stepped down and hit Shaheen for a six and it was so inspiring and motivational, but how he is giving it back and all this. So Virat is exceptional, as in the way he can cheer up everyone. So the main thing was whenever I spoke to him his answers were very motivational and in that thing and when I spoke to Rohit Sharma, it was very tactical. So it was two different parts,” Ashwin said.

Varun Chakravarthy also shared how a net-bowling stint with CSK helped his entry in the IPL. Though he didn’t get to play for the Super Kings, he did manage to become a net bowler for them before making it big for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

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“I bowled to DK, who was impressed and said that he would call me later on. That was the year Chennai was coming back to the IPL after two years of not playing. An interesting incident happened at that time. I learned that Mr. TS Mohan was handling the net bowlers for CSK. I was going on a scooter, following the CSK bus, and I called him from outside the Chepauk stadium,” Chakravarthy revealed.

“I told him that I bowl mystery spin and asked if there was a chance I could be a net bowler for CSK. He asked me which division I played in, and I said that I played in the fifth division. He explained that they only took first division bowlers and no one else. See, he could have easily said no to me, but somehow, he just asked me to come meet him the next day,” he concluded.