Kuldeep Yadav India's left arm wrist spinner generally called as Chinaman. This breed of chinaman spinner is very less in world cricket right now. We all know that he was phenomenal with his match winning performances when he entered international cricket.
 |
| Image Credit to Reuters Photo |
After the 2017 champions trophy Indian Cricket Team introduced two wrist spinners in the form of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal in playing 11 commonly called as kulcha (kul +cha refers to Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal respectively). The mindset of Indian Team Management was to take wickets in middle overs which was not with Ravichandran Aswin who was economical but not a wicket taker in limited overs cricket and fitness was also a concern with him. India was quite successful with this mindset of playing two wrist spinners till the 2019 world cup.
But due to injury issues with Hardik Pandya India lost the balance and brought back Ravindra Jadeja who then established himself in the team with his all round skills. Since then Indian team is compelled to play one of Kuldeep and Chahal with Jadeja playing the role of 2nd spinner.
Read More About India's Squad For Srilanka tour.
Many former cricketer believed that the smart mind of Ms Dhoni behind the wickets helped a lot to Kulcha which was not the case with Rishab Pant and Kl Rahul taking the gloves. After the 2019 world cup there is a serious downfall in performance of Kuldeep and Chahal.
I will tell you the reason, first look at the stats.
 |
| Stat Credit to howstat.com |
Kuldeep Yadav performance over the years👆 in Odi cricket. He was brilliant till 2018 and after that he was not so good.
Why Kuldeep Yadav is not able to perform since the 2019 world cup ?
Kuldeep Yadav is not able to take wickets since the world cup because of lack of game time and game pressure. Kuldeep has been in the Test and Odi squad after the 2019 World cup. But he has played hardly 4-5 international matches in the time span of 2 years and as I had mentioned above that in limited overs cricket only one of Chahal and Kuldeep plays and in test cricket Aswin is doing an outstanding job. Since he was with Team India he has not played domestic matches as well. Addition to that, due to Pandemic many players lacked proper training and practice for more than 6 months. Many people say that Kuldeep is the only player in Indian team who plays for India but is not able to play for his franchise regularly and stats also suggest the same. Lets see his ipl performances over the years 👇
 |
| Stat Credit to howstat.com |
In last two ipl season, he has played overall 14 matches. In 2019 he played only 9 out of 14 matches and in 2020 only 5 matches. In the 7 matches played by KKR in IPL 2021, Kuldeep have not got any match. So, due to lack of game time and game pressure his confidence level has gone down. These are the reasons why I think that Kuldeep is struggling right now.
Recently, Kuldeep played 2 ODI match against England but won't able to perform. It was surprising for many when Kuldeep did not get the chance to play in the 1st test match against England in Chennai, may be the reason was presence of Aswin whose stock ball comes in for right hander and same with Kuldeep. In 2nd test Kuldeep got the oppurtunity to play but he was not used as the 1st or 2nd spinner, since Axar and Aswin was bowling well. Again, in the 3rd and 4th test match, he was dropped from playing 11.
Unfortunately, Kuldeep Yadav one of our best bowler missed the Squad of World Test Championship even after not getting enough oppurtunity.
It is highly unexpected that Kuldeep will make a return in T20I series against Sri Lanka but he may get the oppurtunity in the ODI squad. The story of Kuldeep Yadav from a match winner to getting dropped from the team is very disappointing. A player who was undoubtedly a match winner in all the forms of game is now struggling to retain his position in even one format of Cricket. The way Team India management handled Kuldeep Yadav was very disheartening.
It's time for Kuldeep Yadav to go back in domestic cricket and return with form and confidence (need to wait for the domestic cricket to resume). Everyone need to hope that this match winner comes back with rock.
Thanks
Hopefully you liked.
Post a Comment