Dharamsala, India: It is alleged that Kuldeep Yadav being dropped from the playing XI of the fifth Test match and there was talk of including a fast bowler in his place in the playing XI, the same Kuldeep Yadav demolished England’s top order and brought England to its knees by taking 5 wickets for the fourth time in Test cricket
Dropped from Playing XI, Kuldeep Yadav Proves His Worth
Despite initial discussions of replacing Yadav with a fast bowler, the left-arm spinner proved his worth by dismantling England’s top order and leaving them reeling at 218 all out in the first innings. This marks Yadav’s fourth five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
Yadav’s Dominance:
When Indian captain Rohit Sharma saw that Kuldeep’s 5 wickets have been completed, he removed him from the attack, otherwise Yadav could have taken 7-8 wickets today. Indian spinners, led by Yadav, bowled out England for 218 in the first innings after tea in the fifth Test match.
If there is a spinner in the world who can clean bowled a batter with his incredible deliveries after Shane Warne leaves, it is Yadav from India. With his amazing deliveries, Yadav has been reminding the world’s finest batters of this in recent years. You can tell that the bowl is clean when a spinner cleans a batter; trust me. A bowler for the Indian squad, Kuldeep Yadav is one of the world’s rarest spinners.
After being given several opportunities in limited overs cricket, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma began offering kuldeep yadav repeated opportunities in Test cricket. Yadav did not let his captain down either. Jack Crawley was on his way to a century in the Dharamsala Test match today, having scored 79 runs, when Yadav danced the ball to about 10 degrees and clean bowled him on this miraculous ball, denying him a century. In the Ranchi Test match, Zack Crawley was batting in tremendous style in the second innings and was dismissed by Yadav. In Test cricket, Kuldeep Yadav is now seen doing nearly same duties for the Indian side as Shane Warne did for Australia.
Ashwin Joins the Party:
England were about to win the session by scoring a hundred runs after losing one wicket in the fifth Test match by lunch, that India’s spinner Yadav has stumped just before lunch and brought the Indian team on par in the session. Now by lunch, England have scored 100 runs losing 2 wickets.
Ravichandran Ashwin, playing his 100th Test match, also performed well and took 4 wickets, while Ravindra Jadeja also got 1 wicket. When England decided to bat first after winning the toss and Jack Crawley, along with Ben Duckett, gave England a solid start, it seemed that England was going towards a big score but Yadav first destroyed the top order and middle order, then Ashwin disposed of England’s remaining batsmen and bundled England for just 218 runs in the first innings.
It was being said that the pitch of Dharamsala could be helpful to fast bowlers, but today Indian fast bowlers got swing but did not get a single success.