Kuldeep Yadav Gets Chance in Team India: Team India spinner Kuldeep Yadav’s career has regained momentum. Recently, this Chinaman who excelled in the India-South Africa series. The selectors, who kept this spinner aside for years, are now giving him a place in the T20, ODI and Test teams. This suddenly changed the feat of this veteran player. After the T20 World Cup, Kuldeep got a place in the team for the tours of New Zealand and Bangladesh.
Kuldeep Yadav will play ODI and T20 series in New Zealand tour. Similarly, he was also selected in the Test team for the tour of Bangladesh. India is scheduled to play a three-match T20I series and a three-match ODI series in New Zealand from 18th to 30th of this month. After that, Team India will play a three-match ODI series and a two-match Test series in Bangladesh from December 4 to 26.
Until recently, selectors ignored Kuldeep Yadav because of Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin and Akshar Patel. Because of this, everyone thought that it is difficult for this Chinaman to have a place in the team now. But he proved his mettle by excelling in the ODI series against the Safari team. After Ravichandran Ashwin flopped in the ongoing T20 World Cup, the selectors gave Kuldeep Yadav a place in the team. Chinaman bowler was selected in all the three teams. However, Kuldeep was not given a place for the ODI series against Bangladesh.
New Zealand Tour:
T20 squad: Hardik Pandya (captain), Rishabh Pant (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Siraj, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umran Malik.
ODI Squad:
- Shikhar Dhawan (captain)
- Rishabh Pant (vice-captain)
- Shubham Gill
- Deepak Hooda
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Shreyas Iyer
- Sanju Samson
- Washington Sundar
- Shardul Thakur
- Shahbaz Ahmed
- Yuzvendra Chahal
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Arshdeep Singh
- Deepak Chahar
- Kuldeep Sen
- Umran Malik.
Team India for the Test series against Bangladesh
- Rohit Sharma (captain)
- KL Rahul (vice-captain)
- Shubman Gill
- Cheteshwar Pujara
- Virat Kohli
- Shreyas Iyer
- Rishabh Pant (WK)
- KS Bharat (WK)
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Akshar Patel
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Shardul Thakur
- Mohammad Shami
- Mohammad Siraj
- Umesh Yadav.
ODI series with Bangladesh
- Rohit Sharma (captain)
- KL Rahul (vice-captain)
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Virat Kohli
- Rajat Patidar
- Shreyas Iyer
- Rahul Tripathi
- Rishabh Pant (WK)
- Ishan Kishan (WK)
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Akshar Patel
- Washington Sundar
- Shardul Thakur
- Mohammad Shami
- Mohammad Siraj
- Deepak Chahar
- Yash Dayal.
India vs New Zealand T20 Series (Schedule)
- 1st T20, November 18, 12.00 PM, Wellington
- 2nd T20, November 20, 12.00 pm, Mt Maunganui
- 3rd T20, November 22 at 12.00 pm, Napier