The Indian wrist-spin duo, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal played together for the last time for the Indian team in June 2019. It was a league match against England in 2019 World Cup. Chahal had conceded as many as 88 runs in his 10 overs, while Kuldeep managed a wicket after spending 72 runs. The wristspinners are regulars in the limited-overs cricket white-ball formats but hardly do they get chance to play together now.

In an interview with Sports Tak, Chahal was asked about the reason why Kuldeep and he don’t get to play together now. The 30-year-old gave a very straightforward answer and said that team’s combination matters more than they playing together, adding that the comeback of Ravindra Jajdeja in the ODIs and T20Is led to reshuffling of orders in the playing XI.

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Chahal also shared that Kuldeep and he were together in the XI when Hardik Pandya used to bowl regularly for India. he explained, “When Kuldeep Yadav and I used to play, Hardik Pandya was also there and he would bowl. In 2018 Hardik Pandya got injured and Ravindra Jadeja made a comeback (in white-ball cricket) as an all-rounder, the one who could also bat at number 7. Unfortunately, he is a spinner, we could have played together if he was a medium pacer.”

The wrist-spinner further explained, “Kuldeep and I played 50-50 matches in any series. Sometimes he would play 3 matches of a 5 matches of a series, sometimes I would get the chance. The team combination is needed, 11 players make a team and ‘Kulcha’ was not making it. We were there till Hardik was there, we were also given chances. The need of the team was to have an all-rounder at No. 7 position. I am happy even if I am not playing but the team is winning.”

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Yuzvendra Chahal was recently seen playing in now-postponed IPL 2021. He scalped 4 wickets in 7 matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).