Kuldeep Yadav who stood as the best player in the last match have been excluded from the Indian team for the Test match. The player portrayed immense excellence against the match with Bangladesh, post the news of his exclusion from the Indian playing eleven for the ongoing second Test against Bangladesh may have surprised many, but senior pacer Umesh Yadav on Thursday said it’s a “management call”, something every cricketer has to deal with.
“It’s part of your journey. It happened to me also. Sometimes you are out of the team because of performance and sometimes it’s a management’s call. You have to go with the team’s requirements,” Umesh told in a statement to the media.
“It’s good for him (Kuldeep) that he came back and performed well (in the first Test in Chattogram). When he (Unadkat) made his debut I was with him in South Africa. So, I’m very happy for him that he finally got his chance. He has performed well in the domestic season,” said Umesh.
“When he came into bowl with the new ball, the ball was doing a bit, many balls took the nick of batter’s gloves,” he mentioned about Unadkat who came back with daytime figures of 2/50.
“We knew that Unadkat is used to bowl on these types of wickets and can swing it both ways. So he just had to keep bowling in the right areas and test the batters’ patience.”
“In Tests, you can’t just say a total. You have to keep bowling well. It’s a good performance with the way the wicket is playing, odd ball turning, some keeping out. It was a good bowling show to keep them under 300.” When asked about the Indian bowlers strategy to perform well against the Bangladeshi batters, he said: “No batting lineup is easy, you just can’t come and get them out. Test cricket is the toughest format. You have to keep bowling and batting well. Test cricket is all about patience.”
“It’s a 50-50 kind of wicket. It’s not fully for the pacers or the spinners. Some of the balls are doing something and some not doing. We have to be patient and bowl in the right areas. The odd ball is bouncing from the back of length,” he spoke about the wicket.
