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7.45pm Tame end to an innings that sputtered like an old scooter on kerosene. No momentum, full of wickets at regular intervals and a score even their most die-hard fan would think is beyond their defence. Rust, rust and lots of it from the Royal Challengers Bangalore. KKR lost the toss, and would walk back thinking it was the best thing that happened to them.

Varun Chakravarthy made a case to be picked in India's first XI too, for the T20 WC on these very shores, at this time next month, by sifting through the lower middle order with his cany variations. Narine was superb, as was Dre Russ who flattened AB de Villiers' leg stump with an inch-perfect yorker.

"Good feeling, credit to the whole bowling unit," says Varun Chakravarthy. "Happy to do what the coaches and captain want me to do. Morgan wanted me to bowl the first over and then come back in the death. It worked for me. We had lots of discussions because of the last half, we worked a lot. Credit to the team management. The plan was to attack the stumps, because the ball was doing a bit initially. Now it's kind of flattened."

That's a day's pay well-earned for Varun Chakravarthy. He now has two entries in the top five best bowling figures in a T20 at this venue.