BCCI on Friday announced the squad for the World Test Championship final that will be played in Lord’s, England in middle of the June. Although the squad looks good, but exclusion of wrist spinners from the squad, is making all the headlines and Aakash Chopra questions the legitimacy of this decision. This conversation includes the likes of Kuldeep Yadav and all.
“Personally, even Kuldeep Yadav’s exclusion is a little harsh. He has not played too much cricket, so to make the formal opinion that he does not make the cut, I feel that he is a little hard done by,” Chopra said during a discussion on ESPNCricinfo.
“He bowled only one Test against England, on a raging turner. Picked up a couple of wickets at the end. Did not play the pink-ball Test. Now he is not playing the entire series,” he added.
“Not just the WTC final, but also the five-match Test series against England. In Covid times, you have the luxury of playing larger squads, so why not Kuldeep Yadav,” he further said.
“You get as many as four-spin bowling options – Ashwin, Jadeja, Sundar, and Axar Patel – but all of them are finger-spinners. So, why not a wrist-spinner against a side that tends to struggle against them,” he signed off.
There are always going to be apt questions to answer about but the trajectory of Kuldeep Yadav’s career that has surfaced, is really not good considering the talent he posses.
