India, March 3 -- Varun Chakravarthy's celebratory reel on his Instagram handle plays a song from the 2016 Hindi film 'Udta Punjab'. The lyrics loosely translate to "Let the inner beast come out". At 33, India's mystery spinner did bring out his wicket-taking aggression in Dubai on Sunday night, the loop, deceit, drift and turn all foxing the New Zealand batters.

Chakravarthy snapped up five wickets in only his second ODI, bowling India to a 44-run victory.

His googly to dismiss Michael Bracewell leg before seemed the luckiest of his five scalps. Replays showed it may have been an attempted leg-spinner not coming back enough; a review would have saved the left-hander. The delivery played out like a googly, which even umpire Michael Goug...