“He’s been bowling extremely well. It’s just the situation which arose in Galle, he had to play a different role. Kuldeep could only pick one wicket while bowling 25 overs across two innings in the first Test, whereas left-arm spinner Manav Suthar and Ravindra Jadeja shared 14 wickets among them.
Defending the struggling Kuldeep Yadav, India’s spin bowling coach Sairaj Bahutule on Friday asserted that the left-arm wrist spinner is in the team management’s “scheme of things” ahead of the second Test, and said one mediocre outing will not define the bowler. For me, he has always been a match-winner and he definitely is in the scheme of things,” Bahutule told the media here at the Sinhalese Sports Club.
Defending the struggling Kuldeep Yadav, India’s spin bowling coach Sairaj Bahutule on Friday asserted that the left-arm wrist spinner is in the team management’s “scheme of things” ahead of the second Test.
“So, I don’t think one game decides on the way he is performing and the way he is approaching. So, that’s all he had to adapt to and he tried his best to adapt to that role,” he explained. “I think he was playing his role. So, he was operating as a wrist spinner in a way where obviously the wicket got slower and slower each day. “The revs are good and he is somebody who is like a banker for us.
Left-arm spinner Suthar continued his upwardly mobile journey, taking a 10-wicket match haul at Galle.
The conditions at Galle and the Kookaburra balls, that go soft after the initial lacquer disappears, Bahutule said, mandated the adaptation of a different trajectory for Kuldeep. But I’m sure he was bowling the way he normally bowls,” he said. A massively impressed Bahutule said the young spinner has quickly become a “banker” for the team. You know, consistently being in the lines which we want him to be and that’s how he is also evolving,” said Bahutule.
