Indian cricketer Varun Chakraborty made his debut for India in 2025 and finally influenced international cricket. The cricketer has been a part of Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL for years and has emerged as one of the most important wickets in the competition.
He recently appeared in the YouTube show of former Indian veteran Ravichandran Ashwin named ‘Kuti Stories with Ash’, where KKR Star mentioned his early life prospects before emerging as cricketers.
Varun Chakraborty on Ravichandran Ashwin’s YouTube show
He shared his insight on starting as an architect immediately after college, giving him his passion for music only to go out of it, who also found him playing a guitar in the church song. To build your own architectural firm, directing short films, and working as a junior artist, to pay 600 per day how KKR Great started his career in the early days.
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“After recovering I completed the college, I was working in an architectural company for one and a half years as an assistant architect,” Chakravarti said.
“After leaving that job, for a brief term, I picked up the guitar because I wanted to wake up my love again for music. But soon I realized that if you wanted to push some art forward, love has to come from inside. I realized that after 6-8 months, and then I decided to stop.”
Varun Chakraborty said, “Then I decided to start my own firm in interior design and construction. It was good for a year until the cyclone was not crescent, and I lost all my investment. So it was over. I was around 24-25.”
Varun Chakravaradhi is one of the oldest debut for India
“I went there with the intention of becoming an assistant director, but he did not work. Then one of the advertisements asked me if I had played cricket. I said,” Only tennis-ball cricket. “Next, he signed as a junior artist with a salary of INR 600 per day.”
During the conversation, Ashwin interrupted Varun Chakraborty about his current daily allowance as a cricketer, and the spinner revealed a shocking 42X salary interval, stating, “I get 300 USD (INR 25,652.78).”
This could be the beginning of Varun Chakraborty’s developing interest in the game of cricket, as he slowly started with a tennis ball and eventually went to play experienced cricket and emerged as a right-hand leg-spinner.
Varun Chakraborty made his debut for India in the long white ball format in the second ODI against England. With this, he became the second oldest to start for India in ODIs in 33 years and 138 days.
Only Fokh Engineer gave his first position for India at this age. Chakraborty, since then, was also part of India’s Champions Trophy campaign.
Varun Chakravaradhi dominates in 2025 ICC Champions Trophy
Varun Chakraborty made his debut for India in the shortest format of the game in 2021; However, he was dropped after a disappointing World Cup exit. He has played 18 T20i games and has taken 33 wickets with an average of 14.57.
Chakraborty performed his ODI performance in 2025 in England’s tour of England in 2025 and was part of the Indian playing 11 in the final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 against New Zealand. Chakraborty took 2 important wickets in the final and now there are 10 wickets in 4 ODIs played for India.
He has five wickets in both his formats of white-ball cricket. The player will once again be seen in action for the Indian White-Ball side, when he will resume again with the first set of T20I games for India to India.
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