With his undefeatable and rare in the continent left-arm chinaman bowling, young spinner Kuldeep Yadav has made a concrete place for himself in the Indian cricket team in a short period of time. Kuldeep was initially a fast bowler but on the perusal of his childhood coach in a cricket academy in Kanpur, he developed himself to become a left-arm wrist spinner, a rare breed of bowlers in India. The Uttar Pradesh-based spinner made his international debut on March 25, 2017, in a Test match against Australia in Dharamsala. Following an impressive Test outing, Kuldeep made his ODI debut on June 23, 2017, facing West Indies at Port of Spain. On the same tour of Caribbean islands, he managed to make his T20I debut on July 9, 2017 at Kingston. He, along with leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, charmed the national team selectors with his mystical bowling and replaced experienced spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in the squads for the shorter format of cricket.
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When asked if these are ominous signs for the Indian team, Tendulkar, however, begged to differ.
Kuldeep Yadav took 6/25 in the first ODI at Nottingham, but then returned 3/68 and 0/55 in the next two matches at Lord's and Leeds.
Kohli ended the series with scores 75, 45 and 71. He earned just two points but those were enough to take him to 911 points, highest since Australia's Dean Jones tally of 918 points in March 1991.
England defeated India by eight wickets to clinch the three-match ODI series 2-1 at Headingley, Leeds.
Wood said England will be considering the series finale against India as a must-win game akin to a World Cup semi-final or final to adapt to pressure situations accordingly.
Kuldeep has taken nine wickets so far in the two games in the ongoing three-match ODI series against England and had turned out to be their nemesis in the preceding T20 rubber too.
The Dublin-born batsman also reiterated his preference for tri-series and matches with some context saying that he is not a big fan of bilateral one-day series.
The England Test captain admitted that confidence gained from facing Kuldeep will help in Test matches should the youngster find a place in the playing XI.
In a video posted by the BCCI on its website, Yadav is interviewed by his fellow teammate and swashbuckling batsman KL Rahul.
Ganguly strongly believes that the current Indian team, under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, will repeat the series-clinching heroics at the 'Mecca of Cricket'.
India wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav will look to continue his dominance against England in the second ODI at Lord's, London, on Saturday.
England captain Eoin Morgan stressed on the fact that his team needs to play Kuldeep Yadav better or they would end up losing the ODI series against India.
None of the England batsmen were able to read him and a testimony to that was his brilliant figures of 10-0-25-6, the best ever by any chinaman bowler in the history of ODIs.
"As clinical as it can be," Kohli described India's eight-wicket win in Nottingham that helped them take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
India outclassed England by eight wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series at the Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
Only a few would disagree that except for something exceptional, it is rare for Dhoni to express himself on the field.
In an exclusive chat, former Team India skipper and IndiaTV's cricket expert and analyst, Sourav Ganguly, decoded what went wrong for the Men in Blue and how they can fight back to clinch the series.
England captain Eoin Morgan was full of praise for his team and the way they bounced back from the terrible performance in the first match.
England allrounder David Willey was miffed with India pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar who stopped in his delivery stride in the final over of England's innings.
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