IND Vs BAN Kuldeep Yadav’s exclusion: The china man spinner of India, Kuldeep Yadav, was once again unable to make the starting lineup for the second test match against Bangladesh, despite playing the biggest role in India’s big win by 188-run over Bangladesh in first test.
Kuldeep Yadav played a crucial 40-run knock with the bat to help team India cross the 400-run mark. Then he took a 5-wicket haul to restrict Bangladesh to just 150 and hand India a big lead.
During the second innings, the left-arm spinner again bagged 3 wickets and later awarded player of match for his impressive 8 wickets with bowl and 40 important runs with the bat.
But, team India once again ignored him and took Jaydev Unadkat in place of him.
KL Rahul, the captain of team India, confirmed that this was the only alteration made to the team’s XI during the toss, while the Bangladeshi team’s captain, Shakib Al Hasan, decided to bat in Dhaka.
Supporters of Kuldeep Yadav resorted to Twitter to express their outrage after Team India’s playing 11 for second test against Bangladesh revealed.
IND Vs BAN Kuldeep Yadav’s exclusion: Here are some of the tweets
So the Man of the match of the previous game sits out today… Horrific decision by Rahul Dravid and KL Rahul…#BANvsIND #kuldeepyadav
— swabhiman@7 (@swabhiman72) December 22, 2022
Yeah , it's an opportunity for unadkat, kyunki Kuldeep Yadav to 2-3 saal se bina break liye khel raha tha .. 😂
Indian management ko akkad bakkad karke players select karne ki aadat ho gayi hai ab
— Abey Kuruwila 🎭 (@kuruwila) December 22, 2022
A look at our Playing XI for the 2nd Test.
One change for #TeamIndia. Jaydev Unadkat comes in XI.
Live – https://t.co/XZOGpedIqj #BANvIND pic.twitter.com/ampkK88yX2
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 22, 2022
Kuldeep made his Test debut against Australia back in 2017, but he has been in and out of the Indian Test team for a while now.
Bangladesh made two changes following their 188-run loss in the first test match at Chattogram, replacing Yasir Ali and Ebadot Hossain with batter Mominul Haque and fast bowler Taskin Ahmed. Due to a back injury, Hossain was unable to bowl in the first test’s second innings.
India made one change, bringing back pacer Jaydev Unadkat after a 12-year absence.
Unadkat faced South Africa in his lone test in December 2010. He took over for wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav, whose 8-113 game haul in the first test was crucial to India’s victory.
Rahul, the captain of India, said that even though the wicket was “confusing,” India would have batted if he had won the toss.
“We made one change – Kuldeep misses out and Unadkat comes in. Unfortunate decision for us to leave him (Kuldeep) out but it’s an opportunity for Unadkat,” Rahul was quoted as saying during the toss.
India, which is currently in second place in the World Test Championship, has a chance to maintain that position by defeating Bangladesh in the second Test.
IND Vs BAN 2nd Test Playing 11:
IND Playing 11: KL Rahul (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj
BAN Playing 11: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Zakir Hasan, Mominul Haque, Litton Das, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan (c), Nurul Hasan (wk), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Khaled Ahmed, Taskin Ahmed
