Kuldeep Yadav could have won India the Pune Test, says childhood coach

Mumbai: Kuldeep Yadav’s childhood coach, Kapil Pande, who watched him pick up four wickets in the Dharamsala Test, believes that the 22-year-old should have been picked for the Indian national team much earlier.

Kuldeep Yadav's family and Kapil Pande watched the chinaman’s sensational bowling on TV, from Kanpur. Kuldeep was the most successful bowler with four wickets on Day 1.

"At the age of 12, Kuldeep dreamt of becoming a fast bowler like Pakistan's Wasim Akram, but seeing his physique, I advised him to bowl spin and he listened to us," said Pande.

"Kuldeep should have been given a Test cap earlier in the series. He would have been more successful on Pune wicket. Had he played that Test, we would not have lost the match," the coach believes.

"Kuldeep should have been in the team against New Zealand and England. Anyhow, better late than never," he concluded.

Chinaman bowling is harder art to perfect, says Paul Adams

South Africa's chinaman bowler Paul Adams said that he was “excited” to see Team India's debutant bowler Kuldeep Yadav rattling Australia on the first day of the Dharamshala Test.

Speaking exclusively from South Africa, he said, "I am always excited to see wrist spinner bowl and particularly left arm chinaman bowlers. I first saw bowl him in IPL."

According to Adams, the wrist spin bowling is hard to achieve.

"There are rare chinaman bowlers we see because when you are a left-arm bowler and you bowling mostly to the right hand batsman, you want to turn the ball away from the bat. Always the wrist spin is always a harder art to perfect.

"The Proteas recently started to include Tabraiz Shamzi who I have worked with in the past."

Sri Lanka have also a new chinaman bowler called Lakshan Sandakan.

"Calling this bowling as chinaman is a part of history and what people know the art as. You can also call it left arm unorthodox," Adams added.