India, Oct. 21 -- Since Kuldeep Yadav's debut, the Indian team has gone through more than one transition. After the first four years under the Virat Kohli-Ravi Shastri regime, Kuldeep played under Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid and now he is being led by head coach Gautam Gambhir, who has two captains - Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav (T20Is). There have been numerous changes in the leadership group of the BCCI and also the selection panel but amid all this, one thing has remained constant - the mysterious ways to keep Kuldeep out of India's playing XI in various formats despite match-winning performances.

Sometimes it's the conditions, sometimes the combination of the team and sometimes for no good reason, Kuldeep has found himself war...