India vs New Zealand | Yuzvendra Chahal and I complement each other, says Kuldeep Yadav
Kuldeep Yadav has stated that when Yuzvendra Chahal is not picked for a game, he misses a lot of aspects of the game and added that they understand each other well. In the first game against New Zealand, both Indian spinners picked six wickets in total thus laying a foundation for a win.
India’s spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have formed a deadly combination for the oppositions as was on display against New Zealand in the first ODI. Yadav and Chahal picked a combined six wickets between them and gave India a strong position in the match. But Yadav feels that if Chahal does not play in the match then there are aspects of the game which he misses.
“When you don’t play, I miss a lot of aspects. We understand each other’s bowling and also the track. It’s not always that we are bowling in tandem. There are times when you bowl earlier and I come in later, but we talk a lot about how the pitch is behaving and how the batsman is playing,” Yadav told Chahal during a bcci.tv special.
Yadav also explained how they picked a lot of wickets in South Africa and India last year and are doing the same in New Zealand. He also stated that their variations confuse the batsman. While Yadav is a chinaman bowler, Chahal bowls regulation right-arm leg-spinners, giving India an important variation in their bowling attack with the ICC Cricket World Cup lined up later this year.
“We (he and Chahal) also use same variations but it confuses the batsman (who is thinking otherwise). We got a lot of wickets in South Africa, grabbed a few in India and now we are getting a lot in New Zealand,” said the UP spinner after the duo accounted for six of the Black Caps dismissals.
Speaking about the first ODI against New Zealand, Yadav stated that the pitch was not supportive of the spinners but they still got wickets bowling the right line and lengths.
“It was a batting wicket with not much turn on offer. The ball was skidding a bit, and it was hitting the bat well. So we had to bowl good areas along with using variations,” he said.
“When you use a certain kind of variation then it becomes important to pitch it in right areas which makes it effective. Both me and you did it well,” Kuldeep told Chahal.
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