The young chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav, who was in the headlines a few years back, is out of the main team set up for the Indian team for almost a year now.
Kuldeep had not been in his best in the last 12 months of his professional career. At the same time, he was also not given enough opportunities as the main bowler of the team.
Kuldeep Yadav has revealed how constantly sitting on the bench has taken a toll on him and his confidence. He was India’s mainstream spinner in all-three format for the national team but after the 2019 World Cup, his career got downward with bad performances.
“When you are playing non-stop, players do feel high on confidence. The more one sits out the more it gets tougher. I felt a huge pressure on myself when I played the Test against England in Chennai this February. Due to Covid, there was nothing happening, so things got really tougher even more last year,” Kuldeep was quoted as saying in News18.
Kuldeep also said that he was in depression after he was not picked for the KKR side for not just a single game.
“When you are playing non-stop, players do feel high on confidence. The more one sits out the more it gets tougher.”
“I felt a huge pressure on me when I played the Test against England in Chennai this February. Due to Covid, there was nothing happening, so things got really tougher even more last year. I did, sometimes I felt, ‘what is going on?’. It was difficult times. There were days when you feel serving drinks and being on the bench is for the best and then but there are days you don’t want to be in that place,” Kuldeep was quoted as saying.
He added, “I was especially (depressed) when I didn’t find a place in my IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders. I wondered, ‘am I that bad?’ It’s a team-management decision and it would be wrong to go and ask them. I wasn’t played in Chennai during the IPL despite knowing it’s a turner. I was a bit shocked but couldn’t do anything.”
“I did, sometimes I felt, ‘what is going on?’. It was difficult times. Sometimes, the mind says, ‘ab shayad woh Kuldeep nahi rahe.’ There were days when you feel serving drinks and being on the bench is for the best and then but there are days you don’t want to be in that place,” he stated.
“Nothing really pained me more than witnessing the fall of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal,” Sivaramakrishnan wrote in a column for cricket.com.
“The duo was very successful in the early part of their career. Batsmen were not aware of what they were bowling but now they have been found out. There are computer analysts with every team to help batsmen study bowlers. They’re studying the spinners mainly because a lot of foreign players struggle against the spinners.
“To be successful consistently like an Anil Kumble or a Muttiah Muralitharan or a Shane Warne, you have to keep developing different deliveries (variations) as you progress every year in your career.
“I found Kuldeep has become inconsistent with this line and length and Chahal is not adding more variations to his bowling and has become predictable,” he added.
