NEW DELHI: Yuzvendra Chahal explained that the basis for him personally and Kuldeep Yadav not incorporating collectively in the Indian group in the past two years is due to all-rounder Hardik Pandya is not able to bowl.
“After Kuldeep Yadav and that I used to play with, Hardik Pandya was there and he’d bowl.
In 2018, Hardik Pandya obtained hurt and Ravindra Jadeja produced a comeback (from white-ball cricket) within a all-rounder, the person who could even bat at number 7.
Regrettably, he’s a spinner.
We might have played if he had been a medium pacer.
It had been the need of the group,” Chahal advised Sports Tak in a meeting.
Pandya needed to be stretchered off the area with a spine injury in a game against Pakistan that was accompanied with an extended spell on the sidelines.
He’d just begun bowling again following the 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL) last season and is yet to play a Test match since September 2018.
Kuldeep and Chahal have been growing as a deadly spin set ahead of the 2019 World Cup but they’ve played a game together because the championship, using the former looks for the Indian group moving to a nosedive.
“Kuldeep and that I played with 50-50 games in any sequence.
At times, he’d play 3 games of a five-match show, occasionally I’d find the opportunity.
The group mix is required, 11 players create a group ‘Kul-cha’ wasn’t creating it.
We were there until Hardik was still there, we’re given opportunities.
Needing the group was to own an all-rounder in No.
7 place.
I’m happy even though I’m not playing with but the team is still winning, then” Chahal additional.
