Team India’s young wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav has been going through a rough patch. With the omission from the national team, he has become irregular in his Indian Premier League franchise – Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). Recently, he opened up on his lack of gametime with his IPL franchise as well.
His comments came as KKR favoured Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy as spinners in recent times. And, he rued the lack of communication in the franchise and shared how he has not even been given a reason for his absence in the match as well. Notably, he had hardly played this season as well before the tournament got suspended due to COVID-19.
While speaking on Aakash Chopra’s YouTube channel, Kuldeep Yadav said: “If the coaches have worked with you before and are with you for a prolonged period of time, they understand you better. But it becomes very difficult when the communication is weak. Sometimes you don’t even know that whether you will be playing or not, or what the team expects from you.”Sometimes you feel that you are deserving to play, can win matches for the team, but you don’t know the reason why you are not playing. The management comes for 2 months with their plans, so that makes it difficult,” he added.
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Kuldeep Yadav also shared his views on the difference in the way things are handled in the Indian team and IPL franchises as well. He shared that in the Team India camp, players get to know about the reason for their exclusion from the playing eleven, but it is different from the IPL franchise. He also added that he felt the franchise did not trust his skills now as well.
“In the Indian team they talk to you when you are not selected, but it does not happen in the IPL,” Kuldeep Yadav said. “I remember that I had spoken to the franchise before the IPL but in the matches that happened in the middle, nobody gave me an explanation. I was a bit shocked. I felt like there was no trust, like they had no faith in my skill. This happens when the team has many options. KKR now has plenty of spin bowling options,” he further added.
Meanwhile, KKR struggled in the first half of the tournament and they could only manage two wins out of seven fixtures so far. Kuldeep Yadav also opened up about the captaincy differences. However, KKR will resume their campaign on September 20, when it will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
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“Definitely, definitely makes a lot of difference,” Kuldeep Yadav said. “I don’t know how Eoin Morgan sees me. In such cases, the communication gap increases.”When it’s an Indian, you can literally walk up to them and ask why you are not playing. Suppose, Rohit Sharma is the captain, you can ask freely on ways to improve, what’s my role in the team but most importantly, the captain should also be interested in what he expects from me,” Kuldeep Yadav concluded.
