"India Could Have Used Kuldeep Yadav": Ex India Star Criticises Team Selection Against New Zealand
Former Indian cricketer Ambati Rayudu has questioned India's decision to leave Kuldeep Yadav out of the playing XI for the fourth T20I against New Zealand.
Former Indian cricketer Ambati Rayudu has questioned India's decision to leave Kuldeep Yadav out of the playing XI for the fourth T20I against New Zealand. India conceded 259/7 in 20 overs, their highest-ever total conceded in T20 cricket. According to Rayudu, the conditions demanded a different approach from the Indian bowlers, and he believed Kuldeep could have been a useful option. His comments came after Axar Patel and Naman Dhir struggled to contain the New Zealand batters on a ground with short boundaries. Speaking on Cricbuzz during the mid-innings break, Rayudu said India's spinners needed to vary their pace and make the batters target the longer square boundaries.
He said: "Axar Patel and Naman Dhir bowl fast. But when you want batters to hit to the square boundaries because of the short straight boundary, you have to slow it up. That is where India could have used Kuldeep in this game to slow things up and force the batters to hit to the longer square boundaries."
"The Indian bowlers rely on fuller deliveries. So when your strength is bowling full, and the boundary size is small, you know if you miss, it's going to go big. The strengths of Arshdeep, Prince and Nitish are bowling full. And on this ground, that has been reflected in the final score," he added.
Dinesh Karthik felt Mayank Yadav moved away from his strength of bowling hard lengths in the final over. After conceding 28 runs in his first three overs and taking two wickets, Mayank gave away 20 runs in his final over.
"For Mayank Yadav, extra bounce works because of his high pace. His strength is bowling hard lengths. Yorkers are not natural to him, though he tries. In the last over, where he went for runs, that is what he was doing, bowling a lot more yorkers," said Karthik.
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