‘I wish I could die, it was so bad…’ Varun Chakraborty expressed his pain before IPL 2026, know what he said?

IPL 2026: The upcoming season of the Indian Premier League is going to start 6 days from now. IPL 2026 is going to start from 28th March. Before that, 3-time champion Kolkata Knight Riders’ leading spinner Varun Chakraborty has given a big statement. Varun, a member of India’s T20 World Cup 2026 champion team, has revealed something that his fans will be surprised to know about.

Chakraborty has poured out all his heart. He has told what he has not shared with anyone till now. Today he has narrated the story of when he had received death threats. Varun Chakraborty, while talking to Sahiba Bali, talked about receiving death threats.

Varun Chakraborty gave a big statement

Varun Chakraborty said, ‘When IPL was stopped in 2021, people trolled me a lot on social media. IPL was stopped midway because I got Covid. I was the first person whose test came positive. As a result, the entire IPL 2021 had to be stopped.

Chakraborty further said, ‘After this people started abusing me because at that time during the lockdown, IPL was their only source of entertainment and it was taken away. He was so angry that he got furious over stopping the IPL. I can’t even tell you what kind of things people have said. Some even wanted me to die. It was so bad’.

🚨 Varun Chakravarthy on facing death threats for the IPL:

People trolled me badly on social media when the IPL was stopped in 2021. It was halted halfway because I got COVID, I was the first person to test positive. As a result, the entire IPL had to be stopped.

People started… pic.twitter.com/L7nWhqHw3O

— Tejash (@Tejashyyyyy) March 21, 2026

Varun Chakraborty is the main weapon of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL. He has performed brilliantly for KKR in the IPL so far. Chakraborty has been playing IPL since 2019. Till now he has played IPL only for Kolkata Knight Riders.

Varun Chakraborty’s brilliant IPL career

This mystery spinner of India has played 84 matches so far in the Indian Premier League. During this period he has taken 100 wickets in 83 innings. Varun’s economy in IPL has been 7.58. His best performance has been 5/20. He has also achieved five wicket haul once in IPL.

🚨VARUN CHAKRAVARTHY ON DEATH THREATS & TROLLING DURING IPL 2021🚨

Varun said🎙️- He faced heavy trolling and death threats after testing COVID-positive, which led to IPL 2021 being suspended. Fans were angry as the tournament stopped during lockdown.🤯pic.twitter.com/EGoQyXYc35

— Sam (@Cricsam01) March 21, 2026

Now KKR will expect Varun to perform brilliantly once again in IPL 2026. However, his form has not been good for some time. He was not able to bowl effectively for India in the T20 World Cup 2026, after which demands were raised for his exclusion from the playing-11. Now he will have a chance to prove himself again in the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League.

Kolkata Knight Riders squad

Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Mathisha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Karthik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra. Blessing Muzarabani.

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