Talented spinner Kuldeep Yadav said on Monday (April 22) that India captain Rohit Sharma has stopped speaking to him about bowling and now “nags” him about his batting skills as well. His comments came during the team’s media event organized before their Wednesday’s match against the Gujarat Titans in IPL 2024 as well.

However, Kuldeep then showered his gratitude for how Rohit handled his national comeback from injury a couple of years ago and backed him in one of his most difficult phases as well.

“Before the IPL he only said, ‘Take it easy, don’t put too much effort’ (laughs). That was it! … He doesn’t talk a lot about my bowling anymore. Whatever he wanted from my bowling, I am delivering that already. Now he’s nagging me for batting! He used to speak a lot to me at nets about my batting during the England Tests. He’s been putting a lot of efforts behind it and has been very impressed by my batting too. Whatever he asked, I worked on those things and perfomed in important matches,” he again added.

However, he picked up 19 wickets in four matches which came at an average of 20.16. He also opined on his interesting insights into India’s bowling and fielding plans against England’s ‘BazBallers’ as well.

“The plan was such… like, we play well in front of the wicket so the bowlers or captains keep two fielders behind on the straight boundary. For them, we thought we needed to control the square boundaries. They didn’t have any game to play straight so we put two fielders behind square of the wicket, planned to allow them the singles and bowled the odd ball wide outside the crease. That was how I got Ben Duckett out because he was struggling against that. He was not even connecting the reverse sweeps,” Kuldeep Yadav concluded.