India, July 10 -- There was a lot of hue and cry from cricket experts across the globe when India did not include Kuldeep Yadav in their XI for the second Test against England at Edgbaston, especially after they had decided to rest their No. 1 bowler, Jasprit Bumrah, due to workload management. But the same emotion is unlikely to be repeated in the third Test at Lord's if Kuldeep doesn't make it to the Indian XI again.

There are two reasons for that. Firstly, despite a truckload of criticism from a host of former cricketers, including Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Mike Atherton, Dale Steyn and Tom Moody, for their choice of XI, India won at Edgbaston and that too by 336 runs. Secondly, the pitch at Lord's generally suits fast bowlers and...