Batting blues: Where does Kuldeep Yadav go from here?
Mumbai, Aug. 15 -- He is good. He could've been great. But at the moment, Kuldeep Yadav is just plain unlucky. Or is he?
He was in the playing 11 discussions right through the England series, but never got a game. The odds were quite good for Kuldeep to play. In four of the five Tests, pitches were on the drier side, batting friendly and England's batting isn't at its best against wrist spin.
But India's left-arm wrist spinner had to warm the benches because head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shubman Gill felt his coming in as the fourth specialist bowler would extend the tail. It would be easy to flay Gambhir's tactics. But look at it this way: Kuldeep has played in only two Tests outside the sub-continent over eight years. And none aft...
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