{"id":50418,"date":"2018-12-19T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=50418"},"modified":"2018-12-19T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:50:52","slug":"kings-xi-buys-architect-spinner-for-rs-8-4-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/kings-xi-buys-architect-spinner-for-rs-8-4-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings XI buys architect-spinner for Rs 8.4 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai<br \/>\nTamil Nadu mystery spinner Varun Chakravarathy, who has as many as seven variations up his sleeve, is over the moon after being bought by Kings XI Punjab for a whopping Rs 8.4 crore, more than 40 times his base price, at the IPL auction here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old from Chennai was an unknown quantity till he turned heads with his performances in the Tamil Nadu Premier League and the Vijay Hazare Trophy.<br \/>\nThe architect-turned cricketer said getting a buyer for a base price of Rs 20 lakh was the only thing on his mind.<\/p>\n<p>He broke into the TN 50-over team on the back of impressive performances in the TNPL for eventual champions Siechem Madurai Panthers and made his Ranji Trophy debut.<\/p>\n<p>He said being picked by an IPL team would help him grow as a cricketer as he could learn from Indian stars, including KXIP captain and fellow Tamil Nadu spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.<\/p>\n<p>Varun was designing buildings a few years ago, having completed Bachelors in Architecture from SRM University in Chennai.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai Tamil Nadu mystery spinner Varun Chakravarathy, who has as many as seven variations up his sleeve, is over the moon after being bought by Kings XI Punjab for a whopping Rs 8.4 crore, more than 40 times his base price, at the IPL auction here on Tuesday. The 27-year-old from Chennai was an unknown [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50419,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50418\/revisions\/50419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}