India’s England tour: Former Indian selectors and coaches believe that Kuldeep Yadav is a match winning player who can play an important role in the Test series against England on domestic soil and should be preferred to wrist spinners on batting all -rounders. He believes that Ravindra Jadeja will be the first choice for the five -Test series due to his good batting, but Kuldeep’s joining the team will strengthen India’s spin department. The National Selection Committee can announce India and A teams for the tour of England after the position of the teams reached in the IPL playoffs. The red ball expert players of the other six teams, who could not reach the playoffs, will leave for England as before. This will help you to adapt to the situation there.
This will help them to adapt to the situation there. In Australia, Washington Sundar was launched as the first choice spinner as both Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin were not included in the playing XI after a poor performance against New Zealand. Ashwin retired in the middle of the tour of Australia, while Washington could take only three wickets in three Tests.
Former Chairman of the Selection Committee MSK Prasad, his selector aide Dewang Gandhi and former India -opener and famous coach WV Raman all believe that Kuldeep has the ‘X Factor’ that India needs in England. Raman, one of the most clever analysts of the game, told PTI that Kuldeep Yadav is an aggressive option and should be in the Indian team in England. He has played 12 Test matches so far and if we look at his strike rate, it is one wicket (37.3 balls per wicket) every six overs. So it will be the easiest task for me to keep Kuldeep in the team with Jadeja. Prasad also believes that it can be a better option than Washington.
Prasad said that you can still keep Washington in the team, but I think you need a match -winning spinner like Kuldeep. He said that Kuldeep is a player who has the ability to win the match on his own. There are many places in England that can be helpful for spinners and as a wrist spinner, Kuldeep can be quite useful in that situation.
