Former Australian spinner Shane Warne believes that India's spin sensation Kuldeep Yadav could challenge Pakistan's Yasir Shah as the best leg-spinner in world cricket. Kuldeep has been exceptional throughout the ODI series where the hosts have demolished the Australians by 4-1.
The young left-arm wrist spinner came into prominence in his debut Test match against Australia in Dharamshala, earlier this year, followed by a match-winning hat-trick in the 2nd ODI of the just-concluded ODI series.
Warne took to Twitter to laud Kuldeep.
"If young Kuldeep remains patient when he's bowling in all forms then he could challenge Yasir as the best leg- spinner in the world and quickly," Warne tweeted.
The Australian spin wizard, who had a brief session with the chinaman during a Test match in Pune (then coach Anil Kumble had arranged an interaction) is impressed with his ability to create confusion in the minds of Aussie batsmen.
"Was a pleasure to meet young Kuldeep when I was last in India. I really enjoy seeing him bowl and cause confusion even against Oz," was another of Warne's tweets.
Kuldeep expressed his gratitude towards the legend by replying to the Australian legend.
The young Indian bowlers have impressed the board lately with their performances after resting Ashwin and Jadeja and bringing on the likes of Axar Patel, Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvaneshvar Kumar instead of Umesh Yadav and Shami. Even though Yadav collected four wickets in the fourth ODI, the pacers were quite expensive which led Australia to smash a score of 334 where India lost by 21 runs.
(With PTI Inputs).
