Carrara, Nov. 5 -- Australia's Matthew Short outlined the threat posed by mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy and the exacting challenge to nullify him in down under where surfaces hardly offer any assistance to the ball tweakers.

In the first three T20Is of the five-match series, India's top-tier speedster Jasprit Bumrah and young Harshit Rana have laboured to create impact on seaming strips. On the other hand, Chakravarthy has adapted impressively and devised a plan to claim wickets even though the ball has hardly danced to his will.

After resorting to a different approach, Varun has scythed four scalps and is the second highest across both teams after Australia's Nathan Ellis' tally of six. Short revealed that they have extensively wa...