Kuldeep Yadav Cricket

Kuldeep Yadav is a slow left-arm chainman spine bowler 24-year-old young man for Uttar Pradesh plays for Indian national cricket team. He is a key bowler in Indian team plays in all three formats of the cricket and he also played for Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in IPL. He played for Indian under 19 cricket team in the under-19 ICC World cup in 2004 where he took a hat trick against Scotland and he is the only second Indian bowler and third spinner globally to take 5 wicket haul in all forms of cricket.

Kuldeep’s Domestic Career:

Kuldeep began his career under the coaching of Kapil Pandey initially he started as a fast bowler inspired by Wasim Akram and Zaheer Khan but he could not have impressed his coach and he advised him to become a left arm chainaman spin bowler. As he started spin bowling and he looked impressive with his variations. In an interview, he said that he keep watching videos of Shane Warne how he grips the ball and how he delivers the ball and what length he bowls.

He debut for Uttar Pradesh in 2014 and so far he is playing for Uttar Pradesh he played 30 first-class matches where he took 117 wickets at the average of 30.01 and he took five times 5 wickets haul as well and in batting he scored 846 for Uttar Pradesh at the average of 24.88 with 1 hundred and 6 fifties. In 2012 he was brought by Mumbai Indians. He also played for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014 IPL season and in Champions League T20 as well.

Kuldeep’s International Career:

Kuldeep was included in the squad for Indian cricket team for the first time in 2014 against west indies but he didn’t get the chance to play any match. In 2017 he made his Test debut against Australia where he took 4 wickets in a match he played 6 test so far match for India took 24 wickets with a bowling average of 24.12 and two times he took 5 wickets to haul against West Indies (5/57) and Australia (5/99) at Aussies soil.

In ODL Yadav made his debut against West Indies in June 2017. His first ODI match was rained out. He was included in a second match of the series he took 3 wickets in that match. In 2018 series against England he took his maiden five-wicket haul he took 6/25 in that match. So far he played 43 ODIs for India where he took 86 wickets with a bowling average of 21.14.

In T20s he made his debut same opponent against west indies in 2017. He took his first five-wicket haul against England conceded only 24 runs in 4 overs. He impressed with the bowl in the shorter format and he bowled at the average of just 12.97 and took 86 wickets as well. Kudeep ranked 2^nd in ICC T20i format.