In February 2019, India head coach Ravi Shastri had gone on record confirming that, for all intents and purposes, young Kuldeep Yadav, wil...
In February 2019, India head coach Ravi Shastri had gone on record confirming that, for all intents and purposes, young Kuldeep Yadav, will be the team’s go-to guy in overseas Tests going forward.
“He plays overseas Test cricket and he gets five wickets, so he becomes our primary overseas spinner. Going ahead, if we have to play one spinner, he is the one we will pick,” Shastri told Cricbuzz in an interview. “There is a time for everyone. But now Kuldeep is our frontline number one overseas spinner.”
But as India warms up for the 2020-21 tour of Australia, even Shastri won’t be sure of giving Yadav a game.
In the just-concluded Indian Premier League season, the left-arm wrist-spinner got just five games, with the Kolkata Knight Riders often choosing to bench the mentally fragile 25-year-old. He picked just one wicket in those matches and for a spinner who was once feared by most international teams, that is a very poor outcome.
Back with my brother @imkuldeep18 and back on national duty for 🇮🇳#TeamIndia 💪 #spintwins #kulcha pic.twitter.com/NmWmccaEXt
— Yuzvendra Chahal (@yuzi_chahal) November 14, 2020
Each time KKR tried to play him, he disappointed. By now, the opposition knows that if you attack Kuldeep, his shoulders will drop as quickly as the ball will...
