Kuldeep returns with all-round effort as India take management of 1st Test in opposition to Bangladesh
Kuldeep Yadav of India performs a shot in the course of the second day of the first Test cricket match between Bangladesh and India in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Thursday, December 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Surjit Yadav)
Kuldeep Yadav’s profession has been start-stop ever since he got here into the group as a left-arm wrist spinner. There have been days when he performed forward of Ravichandran Ashwin in Tests, and there have additionally been matches the place he continued to heat the bench whereas a alternative participant performed forward of him. In the T20 format, the place bowlers like him are in demand, he has spent match after match sitting within the dugout.
Since turning into a daily within the white-ball format, he has missed consecutive T20 World Cups – one as a consequence of damage and one other being dominated out. In the BCCI annual contracts, he has been demoted from Grade A to C. Despite having all-rounders in Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar, when India went with three spinners, they typically opted to drop Kuldeep. , During India’s dwelling collection in opposition to England, performed in spin-friendly situations, Kuldeep was dropped halfway by the collection. And this 12 months, in the course of the dwelling collection in opposition to Sri Lanka, he was dropped as soon as once more to accommodate Akshar.
But by the top of the second day’s play in Chattogram on Thursday, Kuldeep’s all-round efforts had helped India seal the primary Test. In his first Test in virtually two years, Kuldeep proved his value. (learn extra)
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
