Former India pacer Irfan Pathan has opined that India should play Kuldeep Yadav against England. “It is very important from the team management point of view, how they keep mind-set of a player, who is not playing. I am sure they must be doing a right job, and that’s why the guys, when we saw some of the youngsters, they came and played really well,” Pathan told PTI in an interaction.
“He is a unique bowler. The guys is about 25-26 and this is where he is going to get maturity. Whenever he gets opportunity, first Test, second Test, whenever he will be raring to go and I am pretty sure that he will do well.”
Kuldeep was with the Indian team in Australia but didn’t get a chance to play in the four-match series.
Talking about the upcoming series, Pathan suggested that a leg-spinner would be successful against the English team.
“When it comes to England, look at the history, if you are a leg-spinner, you always have a chance of performing well, I just hope that whenever he plays, he does really well and he does,” added Pathan, who has played 29 Tests and 120 ODIs for India.
The Test series between England and India begins on February 5 in Chennai. Both the sides are coming into this series with wins. While India defeated Australia away from home, England thumped Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka recently.
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