IPL 2019: Subramaniam Badrinath makes perfect predictions; rejoices for Varun Chakravarthy

The auction for 2019 Indian Premier League went underway on Tuesday. More than 100 players came under the hammer for the highly-anticipated bidding. While some popular names remained unsold, it was a young mystery spinner from Tamil Nadu that stole the show. The winner of the biggest IPL ticket goes by the name Varun Chakravarthy.

The youngster had a base price of INR 20 lakhs to start with. Delhi Capitals was the first team to bid but it didn’t take long for his former franchise Chennai Super Kings to jump in. Both teams had an intense tug-off but decided to give up when the bid went past 3 crores. Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knights joined the party. Finally, it was Kings XI Punjab that roped the spinner in for a whopping 8.40 crores. Since then, Varun has been receiving accolades from so many players and experts of the game, including a former CSK player.

Badrinath feels happy for the rookie mystery spinner

Subramaniam Badrinath, former captain of Tamil Nadu, is now an expert/commentator. The elegant right-hander took to Twitter on Tuesday and made predictions about the auction before the start. He tweeted that Indian seamers like Mohit Sharma and Mohammad Shami would be the ‘hot cakes’. He also mentioned about a certain Varun Chakravarthy would be the dark horse in the auction and would go for great guns in the auction.

Unadkat, Mohit Sharma and Shami hot cakes in market among Indian seamers , hetmeyer and Axar might find interest…Varun chakravarthy from TN ‘The dark horse’ who might be smiling big by this evening 💰💰 #IPL2019Auction #IPL2019 #IPL

— subramani badrinath (@s_badrinath) December 18, 2018

As it turned out, prophecies of the 38-year old were so accurate that Varun was taken for a huge sum of 8.4 crores. While fans and followers set great store by his accurate predictions, The 38-year old posted another tweet to congratulate the youngster. Having acknowledged that his call was right, Badrinath expressed his excitement for the ‘rookie, mystery spinner’ from Chennai.

Ohh yess…… 💰💰💰💰 Called it right… Varun chakravarthy , rookie mystery spinner from TN goes bigggg, happy for the lad ….. 😃🙌🏼 #IPLAuction #IPL2019Auction #IPL #Millionaire

— subramani badrinath (@s_badrinath) December 18, 2018

The other players whom the Tamil Nadu batsman predicted to go for big price at the auction haven’t done badly at all. Seamer Mohit Sharma was retained by Chennai Super Kings for an astounding 5 crores. Kings XI Punjab bagged India’s premium Test match bowler Mohammad Shami for 4.8 crores. Shimron Hetmyer, the hard-hitting batsman from the Carribean, fetched a 4.2 crore bid from Royal Challengers Bangalore.

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